When Life Gives You Eggs.....

If something strikes me I take notes while other days I surf the World Wide Web for blog fodder. Nothing hit me this morning. I mean who wants to be reminded the market has dropped triple digits over the last few days? Do you really care about the best time to buy a car or the most wrinkled breed of dog? OK, maybe the dog. The article says a Mastiff but I think it's the Shar-Pei.

I decided to check out a news blog through Comcast.

The headline reads: Passengers To Fly Home After Cruise Ship Stalls In Port. AGAIN? The cruise industry has sure taken a lot of hits this year. Now I need to investigate. I follow the link and find it's from March 13th. I try another. It's not current either. It's a story about the newly elected Pope.

I'm beginning to think today is going to be a bust. But wait, I found something interesting.

Wanda and I have our emergency preparedness kits together. We have a sports bag in the back room loaded with all the necessary items. I have an ill fitting pair of sweats, old tennis shoes, two pair of socks, underpants and a can of tuna. I also have a two rolls of toilet paper in my car. Now I'm thinking we didn't do enough.

Purchased with a winning bid of $510,000.00 an army storage facility in Kansas will be turned into emergency parking for recreational vehicles.

The complex consists of two fully lighted, temperature-controlled mines with concrete floors. One cave which will be used by the buyer encompasses about 15 acres and contains offices, vaults, restrooms and other developed work spaces. The much larger west cave, which covers about 45 acres, is mostly undeveloped and will be sold and converted to the RV park.

The shelter will have enough space for more than 1,000 RVs and up to about 5,000 people. Members will be charged $1,000 for every lineal foot of their RV to purchase their space, plus $1,500 per person for food. That means a person who plans to park a 30-foot vehicle in the shelter with four people inside will pay $30,000 for the space and $6,000 for food.

Before it comes time to ride out Armageddon or a deadly global pandemic, though, the Resort will be a fun place for members to take vacations and learn assorted survival skills.

Some area residents think the shelter plan sounds creepy or that the developer has "lost his mind," while others are excited because they will finally get a chance to tour the property.

Other than being surrounded by more than a mile and a half of 6-foot-high chain-link fence topped with sharp rows of barbed wire, the land above ground isn't distinguishable from expanses of hills and trees that surround it. The proposed shelter's entrances — nondescript concrete loading docks tucked discretely into the wooded hillside — are easily defensible against any potential intruders provided there's not a full-scale military attack.

Ken Rose, a history professor at California State University-Chico, is an outspoken critic of underground shelters. Though he acknowledged that interest in underground shelters is growing, he called projects like the Kansas facility a "colossal waste of time and money."

The Shelter...Disneyland...The Shelter... Disneyland, I just can't make up my mind. Maybe I should flip a coin? As for riding out Armageddon I agree with Mr. Rose, "a colossal waste of time and money." 

I can't plan (nor would I) for something like that. I don't even buy green bananas.