Survival Shelters Construction Manual

This document needs to be put into some perspective.

I downloaded this back in 2007 or so. (I made this guesstimate based on the last modified date on the file.) I

tried then (as I keep records of all the searches I do for reference, plus I like originals and always try to find them), as I

have tried now (2013) to find the author and or publisher to see if this is copyrighted (and to get a hard

copy). No luck either time.

When I went to upload this to my web site, it was just over the allotted 10 MB limit for free web

hosting. So, I used a utility to break this down into a Word document that would allow me to divide it

into segments for upload. When I did that, each page came out as an image, which tells me it was

low-tech scanned in the past. Not only that there appears to be some pages missing too (undoubtedly

the page with author and publishing information).

Judging by the drawings and few references, I believe the original book was probably done some

time in the 1970’s, with the ‘forward’ added some time in the late 1990’s to early 2000’s. (It talks about

terrorism on American soil which can be either the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center or the 9/11/2001 ‘airplane

bombs’.)

Now a fallout shelter may not seem like a necessity today (although I personally would disagree with that),

however these shelters can also be used as severe weather safe rooms/storm shelter or shelters to

protect you from ‘marauding hordes’ and the like.

If shelters are your interest right now this document along with any of the older US Civil Defense

Civilian Bomb Shelter documents and any new DHS/FEMA storm shelter and safe room documents. (Just remember that the last time I checked the wind experts at Texas A & M School of Engineering, the government

recommendations for severe wind doors was still lacking in strength and would not withstand a direct assault from a 2x4

debris hit, typical of an EF3-4 tornado.)

No matter what, this is a good reference and well worth printing to hard copy.

“Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday“Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday“Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday“Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday””””

TNT

A 50 something, no longer so urban or in NM, homesteading Prepper

I share Preparedness, Homesteading, Self-reliance knowledge & doc's @ http://FormerlyNMUrbanHomesteader.weebly.com