Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers — With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety, at least for those who can afford …::With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety - at least for those who can afford them
No real mention of the main enemy, oxygen… A brush fire can deplete the local oxygen levels even if your nice and cool underground.
These are basically small concrete boxes sunk into the ground. They’re only meant to stick out a bushfire for a few hours.
You could probably just keep a few bottles of oxygen or a carbon dioxide scrubber stashed in there, just in case. If you can spend $10,000 on one of these bunkers, spending a few hundred more isn’t going to make a difference.
Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.
They could put in a bunch of high-O2 producing plants like mother-in-law’s tongue and be relatively okay-ish.
Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.
Water I get, especially if it gets warm, but the rest sound weird. It won’t be comfortable to be sitting around for extended amount of time with your stomach grumbling but surely you can manage more than a few hours?
How are they with temperature management as well? These destructive fires get insanely hot, I’ve seen these fires turn vehicles into nothing but puddles of of metal. I would be concerned that these would just turn into underground ovens.
Excellent news for the rich: they can fuck up the environment as much as they want and sit comfortably in their apocalypse bunkers. At least until the global ecosystems collapse to an extent that not even they can hide from it I guess.
Thousands or more of Americans already have similar tornado shelters and that’s all good. Has been the status quo since the days when electricity was new.
There’s nothing you can do to stop tornados, so a bunker is the best place to be in one.
Deep history shows us that underground creatures are the ones who survive extinction events. Underground is the safest place to be in a catastrophe, apparently.
These are similar to tornado shelters in the US. Several of my neighbors have them.
They even make some that are basically a porch and steps with a hatch to open and climb in.
They are also common with cheap housing like trailer houses.
