RCJ- An area where miners once dug for uranium to supply nuclear bombs may become a sanctuary in case nuclear bombs fall or some other disaster threatens humanity.
California businessman Robert Vicino’s company, Vivos, is offering 575 former military bunkers in southwestern South Dakota for lease as doomsday shelters. The price is $25,000 upfront and then $1,000 per year. The costs to outfit the empty bunkers will be borne by the tenants.
Vicino, speaking Thursday to the Journal by phone from San Diego, said interest has been high since he began accepting inquiries in October.
The bunkers are remnants of the former Black Hills Ordnance Depot, which was operated as a munitions storage and maintenance facility by the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1967. Its operation overlapped with a uranium-mining boom in the Edgemont area from the 1950s to the ’70s, when most of the uranium was used in Cold War nuclear weapons.
The bunkers sprawl across an 18-square-mile plain about 10 miles southwest of Edgemont and are covered with earth, making them look a bit like igloos and inspiring the name “Igloo” for the short-lived community that was built to house the depot’s employees and their families.
The bunker complex is now privately owned, and much of it is controlled by a South Dakota-based corporation, S&S Land and Cattle Co., which has a partner corporation called Fort Igloo Bunkers LLC. Officers of those corporations referred the Journal’s interview requests to Vicino, who said his company has obtained a lease agreement allowing it to sublet the bunkers.
Besides the 575 bunkers being offered up by Vivos, roughly 225 more are controlled by other private owners and are not part of the project.
The bunkers have been empty for decades while serving mostly as windbreaks for cattle that graze around them, but Vicino sees them as perfect places to endure the end times. His company already offers doomsday shelter communities in Indiana and Germany, according to the company website, and sells turnkey shelters for installation anywhere.
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But do they have open concept layouts and a view? Sorry. I’ve watched too much HGTV in order to escape the genius of Juan Williams and Geraldo Rivera. Too much Pawn Stars and American Pickers as well. Anything to escape the wizards of brilliance.
The Longest Day was on TCM yesterday though.
I just can’t watch what passes as news anymore.
a great idea. Suckers are born every minute. I woundnt want to live there. Theres been enough mystery military garbage has been dumped there over the years that if you ever had offspring, they’d not only act but look like vegetables
If there’s a tunnel to Deadwood I’m in!
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A community of extreme survivalists. Hours of discussion about the trilateral commission of the grassy knoll, with 911 truthers for good measure.
I’ll take a vast expanse of my own land, thanksverymuch
I think the guy must be catering to liberals New to the bunker building world. Since the last 8 years were utopia they haven’t had any worries, but ol DJT put them on high alert. Only problem is that the isn’t a Starbucks within 100 miles and they have to travel for 2 days to get here. So WTH do you do when your waiting for him to start WWIII? You definitely can’t mingle with the locals.
All I can think of when I see these bunkers is the early 1970’s movie A Boy And his Dog. Or George C. Scott’s character General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove fantasizing about living under ground in a bunker with a bunch of babes and doing nothing but breeding after the nuclear holocaust.
Is there going to be any Section 8 Housing there? If not they will be sued for violations of civil rights, affirmative action and title IX and any other titles the judges deem fit to apply!
If they dug uranium there?
I did 23 years in the nookler Navy. Not a chance in
hell I’d live there. Radon? What kind of background
radiation? I’d worry about the ground water also.