The bunker builders preparing for doomsday

Re:The bunker builders preparing for doomsday by sneak on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:07AM (#25787220)

I think the much bigger concern would be getting there. In such a scenario where you need a 3 year food supply, I doubt the highways to get to where these things inevitably are will be usable.

The counter for this would be to relocate there earlier in the unfolding of a crisis, before most people have caught on, but then you'd have to go more often (lower relocation trigger threshold), and also stay there until it's over, which would mean you'd have spent ~all of 2020 in one.

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Re:The bunker builders preparing for doomsday by Spooky23 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:49AM (#25787461)

Many people did that.

A friend sold his camp near Lake Champlain to some dude from NYC, sight unseen, for about $100k over asking in April. It was unwinterized, and the buyer dropped a fortune into making it a 4 season home.

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Re:The bunker builders preparing for doomsday by XorNot on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:38AM (#25790780)

This actually happened to a bunch of the rich people who, by the time they realized COVID would be a good time to relocate to their New Zealand apocalypse bunker, couldn't get flights out of the US or into NZ to get there.

I wonder how many are re-evaluating their location choice.

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Re:The bunker builders preparing for doomsday by taneq on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:33AM (#25788056)

Honestly if I lived in the U.S. or Europe and I had a bunker I still wouldn't leave it now.

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