Fallout shelter root cellar
Mark
Frauenfelder at Boing Boing pointed me to an interesting collection
of fallout
shelter designs that the Department of Defense put out back in the
early 1960's. Not sure if I would want to stay too long in something so
small and confining, but the image above got me to thinking about a
modified version as a root cellar. Those big culverts are expensive,
but if you already had one laying around this might be a good way to
provide protection against the bad things out there while at the same
time creating a place to keep food from freezing.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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comment 1
I do have one issue with the culvert designs though: Anything round is going to be difficult to put shelves in. However, I have seen some rectangular box-type culverts made of concrete and lots of rebar: http://www.livingoffgrid.org/instant-cheap-easy-root-cellar-roll-in-place-and-cover-with-dirt/ . Also here are some other interesting root cellar ideas: http://www.livingoffgrid.org/an-ode-to-preserving/ . My favorite is the school bus.
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Everett
— Fri Nov 6 11:33:12 2009
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comment 2
Thanks for the useful links! Mark's got this thing about round houses -- he finds them intriguing despite the problems with putting anything against the wall. I expect he'll have a little round hobbit hole before the end of next decade. 
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anna
— Fri Nov 6 19:16:21 2009
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