There is a bunker just a few miles from my house. It went up for sale a couple of months back. I don't know if anyone bought it or not. My wife wanted to buy it. This is the kinda place you could definately feel safe in.
Read the article.. this thing is radical!
---- Article About The Bunker ----
STANFIELD - Down Love Chapel Road, across from a field of soybeans and corn, lies a little-known footnote to the Cold War.
It's not much to look at from the surface -- two small buildings in front of a 250-foot tower.
But below the weed-covered veneer is a multilevel, nuclear attack- proof bunker built in the early '60s for commercial as well as top- secret government use.
Military jets and Air Force One used to relay communications through the 80,000-square-foot facility -- roughly the size of a Home Depot. AT&T constructed eight such bunkers during the Cold War to ensure vital communications would survive disasters. The Stanfield site was the largest, built at a cost of more than $7 million.
Now the decommissioned mass of concrete, situated on 11 acres about 30 miles east of uptown Charlotte in rural Stanly County, can be yours for the low, low price of $1.5 million.
The potential is nearly limitless. When AT&T moved its operations out of the facility in 1991, it took most of the communications equipment housed on the two main levels. The result is a lot of open space that can be configured almost any way you want.
And once you're in, you can stay in for a long time. The structure was designed to accommodate 90 people for 90 days.
The facility runs on commercial power, but if that were knocked out, two jet turbine engines would supply 750 kilowatts apiece. By comparison, the average house runs on 15 to 20 kilowatts.
A 300,000-gallon fuel tank served the facility. The engines used about 30 gallons an hour, but the tank never ran dry. Employees actually pumped out fuel from the '60s when the bunker closed.
Water for the facility was held in a 100,000-gallon tank supplied by three wells beneath the main structure. There is a separate sewage system and trash incinerator.
Air came through three vents and was circulated using several blowers the size of sedans.
Much of the concrete walls are bare, but the offices include such '70s design staples as beige wallpaper and wood paneling. The sinks and toilets in the housing area are made of steel.
The cots and refrigerators are gone, but little reminders of the workers who staffed the facility 24 hours a day remain.
The engine room still has maintenance schedules. One room has a calendar from 1990. Many corners still have floor plans and evacuation routes to the facility's two exits.
There are three 15-ton doors separating the underground from the surface. Two are at the main entrance. The other is by the back door.
Near that exit used to be an office that only employees with top- secret clearance could enter.
Back before satellites and other high-tech systems, the president's airborne communications were funneled through secured bases. When the plane left one base's reach, another would pick it up.
About the Bunker
Completed in 1967, the 80,000 square-foot structure operated normally with a crew of 30. But it could house 90 people for 90 days in the event of a nuclear attack. A radiation detector and percussion sensors are scattered around the facility.
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