Underground Vegas estate lets you weather the apocalypse

[Old Fart]

http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/underground-vegas-estate-lets-weather-apocalypse-235937555.html

An unprepossessing home aboveground hides a subterranean world.

Mafia hideout?
Pretty cool digs just the same.

 

[Brandi]

That is AWESOME!! Right out of that movie with Alicia Silverstone and Brenden Fraser "Blast From The Past". I would love to have an underground house...no heating or AC needed, no tornado worries, want to make your house bigger just dig an extra room or two plus there's that whole just in case everything goes to hell thing also. A house 28' down might save your life, not like these guys on the prepper TV shows who are planning to survive in a shelter or a shipping container with 5 or 10 feet of soil on top.

 

[BadgeBunny]

LOL ... I've seen that. That pink kitchen just kinda does me in ... GC is ready to move ... Me?? I told him I'd be right here when he got back ...

 

[GeneW]

Yanno, there are a LOT of caves near Miami, Okla and Joplin MO. I've been in the Americold food storage warehouses which are underground at Carthage MO. I used to drive an 18-wheeler for a food company out of OKC and we'd go there every Thursday night. They're huge, lots of them, and many are interconnected. The Americold facilities are just like an above ground food storage warehouse, except in these caves. Man I tell you, they are huge, lots of 18 wheelers driving around underground is an amazing sight.

The reason I mention this is that I always thought it'd be great to have a place in a cave. Unless everybody else decides to show up and barge in.

Anyway, there are LOTS and LOTS of caves in this area, and many are used for legitimate commercial uses, and I've heard there are some on private land used to, lets put it this way, illegal crops.

You'd need power for lights and climate control, etc, but man what a great place to be when and if the SHTF.

 

[BadgeBunny]

Long as I could stay here I'd be up for something underground. Maybe. I kinda like my sunshine.

 

[RickN]

Long as I could stay here I'd be up for something underground. Maybe. I kinda like my sunshine.

If I ever got rich enough to buy or build an underground home, I would look into fiber optic skylights.

http://www.huvco.com/products.php?product=parans

 

[subprep]

ever since I watched the descent I have lost my love of caves. LOL seriously though this is cool, I always liked underground houses. I don't know if its because im a realtor or what but i really like weird or off the wall houses. I guess because I see so much of the sameness.

 

[SMS]

Looks like lots of electric appliances in that pad....might be cool to party in but I ain't going in there for doomsday unless there is a whole army up top protecting my generator and source of breathable air.

 

[dennishoddy]

I'll never hole up underground.
Takes nothing but a method to shut off the air supply to get the occupants out of the bunker.

You have to have O2. Cut it off, and they are done.

My preference is above ground.