This company near Denver, Colorado might be of interest: RainyDayRootCellars.com. They make pre-cast concrete shelters that are multipurpose: root cellars, storm shelters, nuclear blast/fallout shelters, and storage vaults. OBTW, if you are wondering how to make a detached underground shelter disappear… just pile part of your supply of firewood over the hatch.
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Please note that my novel “Survivors” is not just available from Amazon.com. It is also available from Barnes & Noble, and several other Internet vendors. There is also a network of local independent bookstores, coordinated by IndieBound.com. Give the other guys some business, too!
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AmEx (American Expat) sent this news story from Champagne, France: Champagne house finds $1 million in gold U.S. coins in rafters. And, coincidentally, in Germany: Handyman finds secret gold stash in kitchen. (Thanks to Diana for the latter link.)
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Tim J. was the first of several readers to send us this: Mystery mountain man to Utah cabin owner: Get off my mountain. [JWR’s Comment: Here is yet another example of the mainstream media misusing the term “survivalist.” By definition, a survivalist is someone who trains and prepares in advance for self-sufficiency to overcome disasters. Backwoods burglars have to steal because they haven’t prepared in advance and because they lack self-sufficiency skills. Ditto for Eric Rudolph, who was also mislabeled as a survivalist. If he had been a real survivalist, he wouldn’t have to be scrounging in grocery store dumpsters–which is how he got spotted and arrested.]