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Originally Posted by CarolSells
Do you guys remember the Twilight Zone episode where the man was building a bomb shelter in his back yard and stocking it with supplies? (In the fifties when the world was coming to an end.) His neighbors all made fun of him and called him a lunatic. When the disaster actually hit (bomb?) crowds of people rushed to his shelter and actually caved the door in trying to get down into safety. Of course, they ruined the shelter and no one had a safe place including the man and his family.
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Yes, we do.
We also remember Public Television several years ago having modern day people "go back in time" and live totally in another era.
One English family had to live in a rowhouse with 1940's "rations" for food; the man of the house had to dig out and build his own bomb shelter in his meagre backyard.........it was mind opening.
Our parents all lived through the war years, whether in this country or overseas........and remembered the bomb shelters and rationing.
My husband remembers "duck and cover" under his school desk when the Soviets could have attacked.......his era was the 1950's. He went to Catholic elementary. I don't recall it at all in public school.
During the Cuban missile crisis in the 60's......those that had the bomb shelters from the '50's would have had a place to go......if needed.
God forbid we ever need anything like that.
Nowadays it would be from a nuclear winter.....which would last too long to even prep for.........unless our government went underground....but none of us could plan for that eventuality. No food would grow outdoors, etc.