From the looks of things a fallout shelter would be a bad idea in most of Texas unless you could ensure it wouldn't fill up with water. One of the things you lose in such emergencies is electrical power, so sump pumps would be unreliable.
No doubt. I had thought a few days ago about the need for
pumps and the vulnerability that they would be
disabled at very inopportune times by loss of conventional
line power, and that the rumored massive solar-cell array would be reduced to uselessness under thickly overcast skies and nearly continuous rain.
At some point you have to put in a tower with the entrance at the top so you can get in and come out when the water level rises all around.
Yes, assuming that it's a stand-alone mostly-
buried shelter. The escape issue changes if the shelter is built so that it's accessed via a well-sealed
basement or even a
chapel. Are houses in inland Texas commonly built without basements? I thought that from a national perspective, it was mostly us here in shallow-water-tabled central & south Florida who were routinely deprived of basements. I suppose I should include bayou-intensive areas of the Gulf Coast among the topographically disadvantaged [‡].
If you're above a locally
pond-forming elevation, and can watch the rain-supplied flooding pass as a down-hill torrent, such a drenching might provide a useful approximation to power-washing settled
radioactive contamination away from a house and shelter, down to a lower elevation. So the key is not to be among those unfortunates or overly optimistic people who have residential or business property at that pond elevation.
AlligatorDicax: WHAT!?? What kind of rumors are you trying to start? When I or others talk about the "Catholic Bunker" (the subforum) or bunkering down and whatnot, it's figurative or tongue-in-cheek.
It was my impression that Matthew wanted to put the
kibosh on my
tongue-in-cheek ramblings [†]. CathInfo being his forum & server, I stifled my creative ramblings.
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N.B. †: I'm capable of devising & extending such ramblings without
any assist at all from illegal or misused
drugs; I require only a mental
trigger and a receptive frame of mind.
Note ‡: I haven't got topographic maps of the Texas coast that I could consult to see how quickly elevation rises inland (as distance from that coast increases).
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