Mini Blast & Fallout Shelter...Doubles as storage and storm shelter...

[Cheryl Nelson]

Would it work for EMP/Solar shelter, as well?

Relatively cheap and easy...

http://www.radshelters4u.com/mini-blast-shelter.htm

This is the proven pre-built ready-to-bury completed Mini Blast & Fallout Shelter upgraded by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and described in detail here. This shelter was originally designed by volunteers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to where in a pending crisis many people could take the simple plans for the shelter (available free at the link above) to a local steel fabricator and have it quickly and cheaply built.

Also, fabricated and available here at KI4U, Inc., utilizing galvanized corrugated steel (14 gauge rated for under road use type) for 50 psi blast and well in excess of 1000 PF fallout protection. Double entry/exit risers with double welded (inside & outside) 10 gauge steel plate bulkheads and 1/4" steel blast doors. With this pre-built, pickup truck delivered, shelter and less than two hours of backhoe work later, it's in-place in (beneath) your backyard. $3,200.00 FOB Central Texas, call [phone] for more information and availability. (9 remaining in stock to ship today; as of 4/1/11) Be sure to also see/read the Nuclear Blast & Fallout Shelters FAQ for lots of other DIY free plans, books & additional other 'ready made' shelter sources! You'll be amazed what you can do right now, cheaply & effectively, with or without a beneath grade basement!

Also read:  "Or, If No Basement" section at http://www.radshelters4u.com/index3.htm#5 for additional information.

 

[Cheryl Nelson]

No, it's not good.  There are lots of microbes in the soil.  One that comes to mind is the microbe that was shaken loose in the Northridge Earthquake that caused Valley Fever.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Check out this blog for another alternative:  https://earthchanges.ning.com/profiles/blogs/another-idea-for-a-trench.

[Buckworth Jackson]

I'm poor so I have to use a fiberglass equivilant :^( 

[Cheryl Nelson]

Okay, thanks.

[Doug Copp]

not necessary just bury them 3 to 5 ft deep. They won't come out. make sure the tires are filled with dirt and not left hollow.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Doug,

Thanks.  It looks like a very good tent, but basically as a shelter for after an earthquake, while aftershocks are continuing.  My concern is that it won't be able to withstand torrential rainfall and, especially, debris coming in at high speeds. There could also be firestorms.  This is next-to-impossible to have one shelter fit all.  The closest thing at this point is a trench with a metal shelter tied down in it.  Do you think the cable in the tires should be cemented in before burying them?

 

[Doug Copp]

Dear Cheryl:

 

At disasters, for many years I spent 6-10 months; either, sleeping directly on the ground or during 'luxurious times'..in a tent.

 

I like this tent, very much, the biggest problem I see with it is that the poles are pvc. They will break easily and 'blow away' even easier. The poles should be fibreglas (carbon too expensive..pvc too weak).

 

 

[Cheryl Nelson]

Have you had any experience with these:  http://shelter-systems.com/prepareshelters1.html.

What do you think?

[Cheryl Nelson]

Okay, I'm still trying to find the picture from years ago.  It might have more details like materials, size, etc.  Because what you propose with the shelter and tires and cables sounds very similar.

[Doug Copp]

somethings repeat themselves..Noah built a boat.a boat is a seismic resistant platform. I lived on one for years, in San Francisco Bay.

 

ferro cement..no good..90% never got finished..many fell apart...fibreglass is better in every way..a couple of hours for details in this.