Just realized I dropped $60 on those underground bunker blueprints from that shady forum guy

Turned out the plans were just scanned pages from a 1970s Boy Scout manual and the measurements were in metric and imperial mixed up, so does anyone have a real source for fallout shelter designs that don't require a civil engineering degree to read?

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kim37326d ago

Thought it was just me being stubborn, but those plans really are a mess. Used to think you could trust anyone who called themselves a prepper, but that guy clearly just wanted to separate people from their money. Swapped over to looking at community college survival course handouts instead, they are way clearer and don't mix up inches and centimeters. Still laughing at the mental image of someone digging a 12 meter deep shelter with a 4 foot shovel though.

the_patricia26d ago

That community college route is actually smart, never thought of that. The thing nobody talks about though is how those prepper plans never account for actual soil composition. Tried digging a proper root cellar on my own property a few years back and hit shale at like 3 feet. A 12 meter hole in that would be a literal joke. And good luck building a bomb shelter when you've got a high water table, your "dry underground bunker" turns into a swimming pool.

xena_brown5026d ago

lol yeah the mental image of someone digging a 12 meter hole with a 4 foot shovel is gold. But fr what worked for me was just talking to old farmers and construction guys in my area. They know the dirt and the water table way better than any online guru.