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English: A window of the Abel House bomb shelter was once located here and is now covered up. The house was built in 1955 and is located at 11430 Cave Creek Road in Sunnyslope Arizona. It was the first house in Sunnyslope with a bomb shelter which also served as a basement. The residence is now used for commercial purposes. [1]
The home was outfitted with an emergency generator and sewage system. The above ground structure was a garage with a door between two large garage doors. The door led to the shelter which had 2 large steel lined things with lead to protect against radiation. [4] [6] The house was designed to make the occupant feel as if they were above ground.
A shelter can easily be added in a new basement construction by taking an existing corner and adding two poured walls and a ceiling. Some vendors provide true blast shelters engineered to provide good protection to individual families at modest cost. One common design approach uses fiber-reinforced plastic shells. Compressive protection may be ...
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The underground property consists of several key features, including the 6,000 sq ft (560 m 2) home centered in the 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m 2) space. [4] 3970 Spencer Street two-story above ground home built for Mary Henderson. After Henderson died on November 16, 1983, his wife Mary lived in the underground house for a short while.
The luxuries in this case are 1970s vintage, though -- hot tub, outdoor barbecue, intercom, large master bath -- and actually date from kind of late in the era of Cold War paranoia that started ...
A fallout shelter is a shelter designed specifically for a nuclear war, with thick walls made from materials intended to block the radiation from fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters [1] were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War. A blast shelter protects against