Y'all talking about storming area 51 we really need to storm this place.
In a remote pocket of Kansas, a former missile silo has been converted into multi-million dollar luxury bunkers for the wealthy to wait out the apocalypse. Welcome to the survival condo.on a sunny Tuesday morning and I'm standing 201 feet below ground. With my phone in hand , I'm on the 15th floor underground of an old missile silo in remote Kansas that's been converted into a luxury bunker.
Whatever the reason, as the years passed, with each real or perceived crisis — the dawn of the Cold War and Age of Anxiety in the '50s, increased inflation throughout the '60s, the 1973 oil crisis, Y2K — survivalism became simultaneously more popular and more scrutinized, with cults like David Koresh's Branch Davidians, who had been collecting illegal firearms at their compound in Waco, Texas in anticipation of an imminent apocalypse, bringing the movement to the attention of the...
Around the same time, the government was auctioning off an old missile silo near Concordia, Kansas. Hall, who heard about the auction from his role as a military consultant, bought the structure and began work on what he wanted to turn into an opulent bunker with WiFi, cable, and both lavish and life-saving amenities , with space for 75 total occupants. This was in 2008.
"I get so pissed off at the people who think we haven't thought of everything," says Larry, as he flips through the screen options for me in a one-bedroom unit."We've taken great lengths to make sure people feel like they're in the real world here. And they like it that way."Another tool Larry's employed to help the owners imitate their lives IRL is rotating chores.
But back to 2017. Trump had just been sworn into office, leading to a surge of Americans who said they were moving to Canada and applying for foreign passports. Some of the ones who stayed, however, started looking into luxury bunkers."It's not becoming a trend, it already is one," Larry asserts, as he lists the current projects he's working or plans to work on.
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