What would you do with $65,000?
A lot of people talk about being prepared. Peter Larson really does something about it. The Utah resident has constructed a $65,000 bunker in the mountains that he plans to use with his family should a nuclear holocaust or some other major disaster occur that would make living above ground dangerous for a period of time.
The bunker is located 20 feet underground. Supported by corrugated steel, it’s 50 feet long and 10 feet in diameter. It’s packed with provisions of food and other survival items, including knives, guns and other weapons. Larson has about 2,000 gallons of water stored outside the bunker. He keeps about $2,000 worth of cash in small bills and approximately $10,000 worth of gold rings and other jewelry in case he ever needs to barter with anyone for goods or services.
Also included in the bunker is an elaborate air filtration system and an escape hatch in case the entrance is ever blocked once his family is inside. Larson’s motto is that he’s fearful of nothing because he’s prepared for anything. He wants his family to be part of the rebuilding of society should a nuclear war or other disaster cause mass destruction of life and property.
Check out this excellent CNN video report on Larson’s bunker. I think you’ll find it fascinating!
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2013/02/06/ac-pkg-tuchman-doomsday-prepper-bunker.cnn
Do you think it makes sense to put that much time, money and effort into preparing for a nuclear disaster that would necessitate living underground for a period of time? If so, what do you think of Larson’s bunker? If you had his resources, how would your bunker be different from his? I’d love to hear your responses.
How do I get the tablets fior or if we are exposed to nuclear or radioactive material? How long is the shelf life of these pills & how much do they Cost
It takes about 30 minutes for a ICBM to reach New York City from Moscow. It also takes time to detect it and report it to the public. Most people would not have enough time to reach their shelter in such a short time. Traffic jams could even prevent you from getting to your shelter. If an ICBM is launched from a submarine, you would not have enough time, unless your shelter was in your back yard and you were at home.
Sounds like a small bunker
I can understand why the fear of a nuclear war.But its the civil war that’s on the table right now.patriot american’s will be facing internal hard ship from people that seek food and anything you have for them to survive.Gangs that are in large numbers spreading out in a military fashion.and that’s just the tip of the ice burg .no power,ways to get food or medical and transportation that;s needed.now;s the time to get people that you trust or join a group that are preparing for these same things.training,training,and more training.good luck be safe and keep GOD in your life.Its coming and you should be moving as fast as you can on this.
At 83 years old & my 80 year old wife with body pains will not allow us to leave our home1 so we decided to follow Davy Crockett’s Alamo plan as we will only survive a few weeks until its time to see our God’s next survival plan! Until that occurs I will shoot as many of the enemies as I can. Then it will be too hard for me to see the dead bodies as the smell will be too difficult as we cannot bury them. But we will be able to eat our Patriot food & water and sleep our beds inside until they kill us! I fought 3 wars (Korea, Cold War & Vietnam). I love America & I hate any enemy that wants to kill American people that loves our Constitution.
Amen brother. We share your position. I m 82 and wife 80. I am a Korean Vet. We have guns and provisions.
Just believe in God and he will take care of all your needs. Why should he when he gave us the ability to do do for ourselves? God has created an abundance of wild edible foods free for the taking…..and what do we do…..get out the Roundup….I don’t want those weeds in my yard.
We are in this situation because America has turned away from God, the creator, and the author of our once great Democracy. God says in His Word to prepare when you need to, but vital to that prep is having Him as your ultimate backup plan. It’s easy to imagine one spending months and years to prepare for disaster, only to have some demon shoot you and take it all. God has offered His protection to His own. I’ll take Him up on it.
It’s prudent to prep for short term disasters, but in case of a world ender, who wants to live and rebuild only to have humans ruin it all again. God is getting a good look at our inner loyalties through all this disaster prep. I wonder if He likes what He sees. MOST preppers ignore God altogether, and think they can make it on their own. Pride is a true killer.
Obvious, but as others have said advertising the bunker was foolish and a display of ego and self absorption. Having “cash”? Where is the government that issued the cash and what will it be worth post apocalypse? Answer 0. People need to eat, will be looking for food, medical supplies, weapons and shelter for themselves. Desperate people do desperate things, so when Larsen emerges from his shelter to begin the “rebuilding” of society he may have to put that on hold and spend decades defending himself and family. Again, it sounds like he values his future role in very simplistic terms. Others may not view him as their natural born leader and will be more interested in what supplies/provisions he has that they can benefit from. At this moment he has placed a big target on his and his family’s back.
I believe preparation for any disaster is only being a good stuart. HOW many folks have the money to build such a building? I must say it would seem he does not believe in any devine intervention if his desire is only to survive to rebuild Babylon, and be part of the new civilization. If you have the means for such a building it is probably prudent, but to put your entire faith in it is rather ignorant, and lacks faith.
We’d be better off spending our time learning Russian and Chinese…
Many of the information things we see need a computer to access and power better spent on other things in a time of crisis . I wish if you see something for all your readers that is a good source of info for use after this all comes down a hard copy from the person advising us would be better than a download to a computer that wont work or an internet we may never see again. And a book would last much longer than if we print all the info into reams of paper Just a thought .More portable and takes up less space to store as well as carry in your bur out bag.
Sadly, I realize that I don’t have any possibility of stocking up for survival. I’m a retired veteran with lymphoma, cannot work and, if I could, I’d be well on my way towards preparedness. But I can only watch as the ultimate chaos marches steadily towards the country I served for 20 years. Survival is not only smart and preparedness, critical–it also is something that I and many more Veterans like me cannot afford to pay for. As is the consistently repeated theme in this country, it’s survival of the richest, not just the fittest. My reference to wealth isn’t based upon financial worth. It’s based upon the access to of resources, cash “on hand”, and the ability to build fortified shelters brimming with life preserving goods, water and weapons. Ultimately, for my service to this country, I will be tossed into the “zombie apocalypse” file even though I have highly marketable skills (to include the use of explosives, from my first job in the Air Force as an AMMO troop); superior organizational and communication skills and the desire to do anything I can to not only survive, but to help others on board with anything I can bring to the table. Well, that sums it up. I’m screwed.
Patti, Have faith. When my children and I started to prep we decided to include 2 neighbors who lived alone and did not have the means to prep. We never told them.
There are so many things that could happens and Jesus said “you will be hated, persecuted because of my name” the main thing to prepare is your heart and all else will fall into place according to Thy Will. Preparing like this man did and then telling about it on t.v. all I can say, may God protect him when that day comes. Preparation is a great ideal, everyone needs to do it, but one has to consider when that day comes–how many true freinds do you think you will have? For it will be like no other time on earth.
all coments interesting. I live near nyc so will likely
go fast—wish I could provide food/drink for survivots
am alone so with no help–its not likely possible.
A major part of security is keeping you assets secret. Having blabbed it about, it is now a target for anyone willing to pirate the assets, which means anyone hungry enough to be desperate. Blabbing it about invites visits by parasitic types like building inspectors, land use bylaw fusspots, property tax busybodies etc. I believe Switzerland has constructed underground, which in Switzerland means mined inside mountains, enough shelter capacity to hold its entire population.
2’000 gallons of water will be nice to have… for the people outside the bunker
Gold will be useless. Food, water, power all will be sought after. Weapons and ammo will be readily available laying in the street next to dead people. More than preparing for global disasters you should prepare for natural oval disasters.. Tornadoes, hurricanes etc getting to that bunker will be near to impossible. I saw first hand here in Houston the evacuation when hurricane Ike came. Traffic at a stand still for more than eight hours. No gas, no ice, no bread. Some places had no electricity for more than two months. My place was 3 weeks without electricity. Water was no problem as we have a well that is pumped out by a generator. No government, no FEMA no body to help. Churches and neighbors were they only ones we could count on. Be prepared for a two to three week downtime.
Can you put that on a poster and just walk around the country? I wish more people would understand that having a disaster prep plan isn’t crazy; it happens to people ALL THE TIME!
Gold will never be useless… it is traded and used WORLD WIDE!! and has been for Thousands of years. Just because you may not be able to use it in America, which I highly doubt anyway, the rest of the World will continue to use it. If I had access to 65,000 bucks that I could use for a bunker… I would at the very least have a water filtration system “Inside” my bunker, as well as an air system of some kind. A perfect bunker for me would also have room for animals and a garden… so I would be COMPLETLY Self sufficient. I have multiple drawings and plans for a bunker, just lack the finances to construct. Oh, and I would not be telling people about it or bragging. I would want to stay completely 100% off the grid and away from other people… Like someone said earlier, when the Sh** hits the fan… almost everyone who didn’t plan will want what you have, and stop at nothing short of their own lives to get it! Good luck to all who can plan and afford to take precautions, and to those who are still trying.
Good for you: FEMA never showed.
I live about 100 miles from Houston and had relatives stuck on I10 West. They learned a lot from that. Bet you did too. Nothing like a dry run for prepping.
As of today (April 29, 2014), I was watching a program called “Prophecy in the News” and a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. had some enlightening news…Iran could care less about nuking Israel as it has its sights on the Arab Sunni oil barons who control the world’s oil supply. Also, Iran has nuclear weapons right now in Venezuela, he said, for future use in terrorism. Ironic that Russia has good relations with Iran and Venezuela where they trade with each other. The latest from MSNBC Rachel Maddow is that Putin has made a deal with Exxon to operate several of their oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and Shell is collaborating with Putin to operate gas and oil extraction in the Artic. And we thought that the Cold War was over!
What about its being that close to that Yellowstone supervolcano? Seems to be a very bad place to hunker down!
Thanks, Roy. I was wondering when someone would mention the supervolcano. I have already decided to take my chances on the East Coast in upstate NY or nearby. But it’s hard to say how safe I’ll be since, if and when the supervolcano blows, the winds generally go east, right over New England. Then I’ll just have to bend over and kiss my A** goodbye.
While it seems prudent to stock cash and gold for barter, in most scenarios I believe you would be better advised to stock some simple trade goods since most people are going to be more concerned with their (and their family”s) survival than collecting cash or gold.
I keep about fifty Bic lighters (plus about that many for myself), a couple of containers of lighter fluid (to fill Zippos), and some toilet paper — that I might or might not decide to trade. I could spare some .22 or .22 magnum ammo, too, though it would have to be a VERY attractive trade before I’d arm someone else.
I also have about 30 GI can openers, the old P-38’s & the larger ones, which I figure will rate high as barter goods, and they”re CHEAP.
I figure cigarettes will command huge trade prices, too, but they’re expensive to buy & I’d probably smoke them myself anyhow. Tampax will trade high, also, but takes a lot of room to store.
I heat with wood & keep a couple of garbage cans full of small twigs & pine cones that I collect throughout the year, and I figure that small bundles of tinder & twigs may trade high, also.
I also keep a couple of dozen cheap knives from the Dollar Store for trade. Their one-dollar paring knives, with a hard plastic sheath, are a real bargain, and will be worth far more as trade to someone without a knife. The Dollar Stores are a great source of trade goods worth much more than cash or gold.
I commend the elaborate preparations but there is at least one fatal flaw. Survival depends on GETTING TO THE BUNKER. It is a far drive from home using a car on the freeway, one or both of which may not be available to get there when it hits the fan. I hope he has alternate preps at home, in vehicles, backpacks, etc. Same for anyone else hoping to survive in that bunker. It seems like all preps were made with the assumption that the crisis to survive would be nuclear and not much possibility for other crises that could be just as life threatening. Good luck. Pray. You will definitely need that.
It’s not a flaw. He trusts in God. The truly fatal flaw is not trusting in God.
God says in His word He will not allow His creation to be destroyed or His people to be harmed. One question….are u keeping God’s Sabbath or Sunday? Who and when was worship on Sabbath changed from when Jesus a Jew kept it? Google it. Constantine changed it for political reasons in 323ad. The Bible says not one jot or tittle will be changed. God does not change. Jesus didn’t come to do away with the law but to magnify it…….Saturday Sabbath is what Christ kept. R u a real Christian? Does He know u?….LCG.org
CHRIST WAS A JEW. THE JEWS DAY OF TEMPLE IS ON SATURDAY. CHRITIANITY WAS A RELIGON THAT STARED WITH PEOPLE BELIEVING IN JESUS AS OUR SAVIOR. THE JEWS DID NOT BELIEVE HE WAS THE SAVIOR BACK IN 500 AD. HE WAS NOT AN ORDINARY MAN. HE WAS HALF EXTRATERSTREAL. OUR CREATOR GODS SENT HIM, TO GIVE US FAITH AND MAKE HIM A MATTER. WHEN HE RETURNS , IT WILL BE ON A BEAM SHIP AND HIS INCARNATE WILL REVEAL OUR CREATOR.
Sheri, your the first person besides my family believes still that the Sabbath is on Saturday and not on Sunday. That is God’s Commandment and we are to live by his Commandments. There are going to be a lot of people having to explain to God why they are not keeping his Commandments. My family are Adventists, which goes by God’s Commandments and strictly by the Bible. People need to start eating healthy so they won’t be so sickly when Christ’s comes back. Praise God and God’s Israel as they fight for there Freedom from Terrorists.
I agree with you that lighters would be in high demand in such a situation, but I buy the clear Scripto Views. They come in a 7-pack and at Walmart only cost $1.78 or so. I pick up 1 or 2 every time I shop & now have over 200 lighters stored. The big advantage of Scripto Views when bartering is that the other party can see that they aren’t getting ripped off with a partially empty lighter. I figure each lighter should be worth at least a day’s rations.
I LIVE IN THE SOUTH BAY AREA. WHERE ALL THE AREO SPACE AND THE FEDRAL BULIDIG IS. WHERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF GROUND ZERO. THE MOUNTAINS AND CAVES I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AT, BUT WHERE I LIVE WE WILL BE TOAST. I WOULD RATHER PARISH THAN SURVIEVE IN A POST NUCULAR WORLD. I’M 62 AND HAVE DONE MORE THAN SOMEONE IN THERE 80’S.
Only God has the answer. ” He that believeth in Me will everlasting life.”
the bunker cost more then my house.
I am impressed with your bunker. What I want to know is how much it costs to get it placed in the ground?
That’s sounds like keeping the family seed going on a whole new level….than we can all live like stepford wife’s….haha….no realy being female , the during and
after that……it would be just creepy…I don’t think I could live seeing earth like that…its so stunning on earth….visual I couldn’t handle it….that being said….I don’t have children of my own…if I did…it would be totally different… GAME ON…I once lost my nephew in a big park….I thought it was the end of the world
The desert will blossom like a rose, living waters will flow outward and heal all nations. There will be no more war. The Lion will lie down with a kid. There will be nothing to fear. The cobra will no longer be harmful…..I’d like to live in that world. Google it in Ur Bible
Nothing happens in this country (or any other significant country) without the puppet masters who control Obama, Bush, Clinton, blah blah blah’s approval. Think about it. Then think about how you’d do something so sinister had you the inclination to do it. Yep, thought so – turn groups of people against each other then melt back into the shadows. When the smoke clears, come on in with your carefully protected from any disaster private army and REALLY take over. This hullabaloo about N. Korea is bullshit designed to keep us scared and off our senses. I’m not saying there isn’t a clear and present danger – because there is – but it’s sitting right in front of us – yes – hiding in plain sight. Just follow the money and the power (not what you see on the boob tube). Remember all media is Gov’t controlled. Have a nice day…
Obama is the choice of the Rothschild’s. He has been annointed and will try to disarm the American people to usher in a new phase of tyranny. He will utterly fail in this regard. As long as the 2nd Amendment exists, people WILL resist.
Preparing to survive any of the dozen or so scenarios we could face is like studying for a test. You either adequately prepare or prepare to FAIL.. Enough said and Kudos to Mr. Larson for having the sense to not wait for all hell to break out before beginning to make preparations.
I live to close to DC …there won’t be anything left here when the big one goes off. See everyone on the other side…that’s if GOD lets you in.
The best revenge is to survive!
Chances are that if he ever really needs it, someone will already be occupying it.
Stock Up! It may not protect against this…
In a recent report from Newsmax, they claim that between October 1, 2010 thru September 30, 2011 that the U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security arrested 327,577 aliens illegally entering the U.S. JUST along the U.S. – Mexican border and another 6,552 illegal’s along U.S. coastlines.
Of the illegal’s captured along the Mexican border, 46,997 were listed as ‘other than Mexican’. Among the ‘other than Mexican’ were people from countries listed as ‘special interest countries’ such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Somalia, Tunisia, Syria, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Indonesia. Looking at the countries of origin, I think it’s safe to assume that many of them were Muslim, making me wonder how many may have terrorist ties.
………….Do ya think they want to pick tomatoes? I don’t think so.
Terrorist scouts are testing for soft spots to smuggle nukes across the Mexican border.
…………….Hm, but where to put them.
How about in the bottom of Yellowstone lake atop the thin 3 mile thick porous
cork over the super volcano.
If that sucker blows, radioactive ash 10 to 3 foot thick all the way to the Ohio valley.
All farmland, DEAD. Livestock, DEAD. Rivers, DEAD. Fish, DEAD. Transportation as we know it, DEAD. 200 million, DEAD and dying! 75% of the country DEAD in a month and it will continue to erupt for three months.
This has a high probability precisely because Obama, Holder and Congress will not secure the Mexican border and enforce existing immigration laws. They LOVE illegal’s and weak national security!
No one makes any money sealing the borders or the ports. So Military Industrial Complex Neo-con’s keep pouring money into ABM related Lasers, Satellites, and Missiles and ignore the obvious.
The next Pearl Harbor will be delivered in an beat up pickup truck on its way north from Mexico.
And if the Terrorists have a second nuke, drop it off the western flank of La Palma in the Azores and collapse the side of the volcanic Island that is hanging by a thread. The resulting 20-30 meter Tsunami will take out the entire east coast 10 to 20 km inland. I would not be surprised if the Russians had not already planted a large nuclear mine there already to be set off by an ELF wave at their leisure.
The combined effect would destroy 90% of the country. Yellowstone itself could start a cascading worldwide civilization ending extinction event. But in the eyes of crazed terrorists on the other side of the world with lots of cash and little remorse…why not?
However take heart, MAYBE we can knock down a ICBM from North Korea with the new airborne laser if the launch is patterned like the staged marsh mellow tests to date. But the Pacific based Laser cannot target a beat up pickup truck crossing the Mexican border in the dead of night hauling a couple nukes to Yellowstone.
This comment was so funny. U r right. This world is loco
Believe it or not we will all survive one way or another. God wants to introduce Himself and give everyone a fair chance to make a choice.
If we don’t know Him, can’t understand Him, aren’t sure if He exists, then he hasn’t properly introduced Himself. But I assure you, He will and you needn’t fear at all.
If u know the Bible, u know in places God regretted creating mankind. Can u blame Him? Ask any parent. But He hasn’t. He sent a rainbow for a sign, a promise that never again.
Yea- would be nice to have a place like that, but gave away too much info, anyone now could probably find his bunker, either looters or the govt.
I am not sure if I wanted to survive a nuclear war. I guess it would depend on where it was and how much exposure came to my area. Anything else, I am prepared for to the best of my ability. I commend Mr. Larson for being a real patriot and such a good father and husband. God bless you sir.
Brother Larson i commend you your Family is dam fortunate to have you as the head ofyour household.