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Pulled up the the gas station in Leadington, MO next to this guy. Sadly enough, this was nothing out of the ordinary in this part of Missouri.
Submitted by: AnnMarie Nichols
Be careful, there are schoolchildren about.
~NSHA
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After the initial back and forth of:
“Get your bus outta my house!”
“Get your house away from my bus!”
~Not-So-Handy Andy
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And they laughed when I told them I had to take the bus to school.
Happy Thursday Fixers! Phew, what with all the war talk these last couple weeks, on top of the nigh improbable inevitable doomsday glinting at us from 2012, I thought today we might take a look at how one Canadian by the name of Bruce Beach is making sure humanity survives the nuclear holocaust. Take a look at this swanky fallout entrance.
You see, it all started in 1980 when Beach, a radiological scientific officer, decided that his line of work was going to kill us all. I can only imagine what began as a guilt ridden hobby ended up blossoming into a full on obsession. Over the next thirty years, Beach and his friends and family used 42 decommissioned school buses to form a 10,000 square foot underground city with enough room and supplies to house over 300 people. They then poured thousands of pounds of concrete over it, which had to be kept damp for months in order to set without cracking, and topped it off with fourteen feet of soil.
Beach proudly states that this homemade bunker can withstand anything short of a direct nuclear strike; though if movies have taught us anything, it’s that no one bombs Canada and it’s too cold to sustain zombies. But some of his work is just awe-inspiring in a can’t look away kind of way. For example, after passing through those Dharma-esque doors, inhabitants travel down the conveyor corridor…
…and can visit the men’s washroom…
…the slightly understaffed fire station…
…and the scariest dentist chair I’ve ever seen outside of a horror film.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Seriously. Click here to see a detailed plan of the bunker’s interior. Or click here to see an interview he gave to Penn and Teller. (Yes THAT Penn and Teller) Really, there is just too much O_O for me to cover in one post.
All my information and images courtesy of Beach’s Ark II website, which also details his plan for after we emerge from the buses into our very own Fallout universe.
As always, if YOU have an idea for a future Historical Thursday, please email it to me at thereifixedit@gmail.com.
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Remember our friend, The Long Bus? After wrapping himself in a duct tape cocoon for the winter, he emerges as a hideous beautiful functional camper. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer SavageParrot says, “Throw in a still and a rudimentary hot tub made out of an old septic tank and you’ve got yourself a palace on wheels…”
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Favorite Comment: Fixer TechBender says, “Bloody private school kids! They’ve got a matte black bus with rims and a patio? Servants must be in the white Lexus on the other side.”
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Favorite Comment: Fixer Lumpy says, “Dropping the Kids off at the Pond” takes on a much cleaner connotation.”
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