Hobbit Hole + World Class Fallout Shelter

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Hobbit Hole + World Class Fallout Shelter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 12, 2004 @04:14AM from the hang-your-hat-under-ground dept.

ChaosMt writes "Slashdot has covered buying missile silos before, along with buying old microwave bunkers to provide the ultimate level of data protection. Making your own Hobbit hole has been covered too. Now you can have it all in the best shelter I've ever seen (even beating the Subterranean Fortress) in an undisclosed location outside of Durango, Colorado. It may not be your cup of tea, but it is very impressive to see and compare to your own disaster planning."

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Secure but ... by mmarlett · 2004-09-12 04:17 · Score: 4, Funny

... it doesn't handle Slashdotting.
1. Re:Secure but ... by DrEldarion · 2004-09-12 04:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I wonder how well the Ultimate Secure Home handles an internal fire caused by a burning webserver.
2. Re:Secure but ... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-12 04:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Apparantly even http packets cannot penetrate this fortress.
3. Re:Secure but ... by rts008 · 2004-09-12 04:29 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Agreed...besides, much cheaper to buy an old house in the sticks and move into the septic tank- you already have running water...just add electric and your good to go
  
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4. Re:Secure but ... by moofdaddy · 2004-09-12 04:45 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Agreed...besides, much cheaper to buy an old house in the sticks and move into the septic tank- you already have running water...just add electric and your good to go
  
  To get down you just have to get in the toliet and flush
  
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Right. by Zebra_X · 2004-09-12 04:21 · Score: 4, Funny

cleverly hidden 550 cubic foot root cellar is roomy enough to hang four elk quarters in and has large shelves for other food storage

Yes, becuase my FIRST thought was to use the room for hanging elk meat.
Who needs one... by flycrg · 2004-09-12 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

...when you can just duck and cover?
1. Re:Who needs one... by Sponge+Bath · 2004-09-12 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ...when you can just duck and cover?
  Because, when Nuclear Armageddon comes, there may not be enough ducks for everyone.
Slashdot wasting no time preparing for apocalypse by Money+for+Nothin' · 2004-09-12 04:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Only a few hours after a mushroom cloud was seen at the border of China and N. Korea, the people of Slashdot are looking for fallout shelters.

Considering the batshit-crazy Kim Jong Il still runs N. Korea, maybe that's not such a bad idea after all.

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Time for Teletubby Bye Bye by Sponge+Bath · 2004-09-12 04:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Blech! I expect to see LaLa jump out of that hole in the ground.
Re:Paranoia by someme2 · 2004-09-12 04:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is suspected to be passed to humans from cattle and other animals that have Mad Cow Disease. [...] Nor is there proof that the diesaes spreads between humans.

Very true! I think we can dare to go a step further and say: Nor is there proof that spread of a disease that you get from eating cows can be prevented by hiding in an underground bunker complex.

Also, my favorite part is the end of the article:

Because of the owner's illness and major surgery, the house is currently being offered at only 65% of the actual building costs.

So, go buy it! Play it safe!!! Don't risk illness!

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Oops by ravenspear · 2004-09-12 04:42 · Score: 2, Funny

best shelter I've ever seen

Unfortunately you are the only one who will ever see it.
Score... by EvilGoodGuy · 2004-09-12 04:54 · Score: 3, Funny

If that doesn't scream either hobbit or smurf to you, then you are crazy. If only I weren't a poor college student.
1. Re:Score... by Scrameustache · 2004-09-12 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If that doesn't scream either hobbit or smurf to you, then you are crazy.
  
  Smurfs live in hollowed-out mushrooms.
  
  The kind of mushrooms the creator took before he came up with the concept I believe ;-)
  
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Why tell everyone? by gricholson75 · 2004-09-12 06:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Really, if I had a huge underground complex under my house, I wouldn't tell a soul. I mean, haven't they seen that episode of Twilight Zone.
Old adage, new perspective by Ikn · 2004-09-12 06:45 · Score: 4, Funny

I for one do NOT welcome our new dominating Overlords, and will be hiding from them in my subterannean lair.

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Building materials by Sloosh13 · 2004-09-12 08:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means...uh...concrete.
Re:Paranoia by Illserve · 2004-09-12 08:41 · Score: 3, Funny

So when the next hurricane/tornado comes, the only things left in the house will be my family and my servers. :)

You'd let your family into your server room?

I mean, I know it's a hurricane and all but.... some things you just don't do.
If you say so by mnewton32 · 2004-09-12 10:23 · Score: 3, Funny

...compare to your own disaster planning...

Yes, of course. My own disaster planning...
I must be missing out on something there. Perhaps because I'm not an American? I don't know, but the only disaster planning I do involves wondering how I'm going to explain my latest eBay purchase to my wife.
Re:Article text by Fred_A · 2004-09-12 11:05 · Score: 3, Funny

No .50 cal automated turrets ?

You call that safe ??

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