Would suffice as a cool hunting lodge or a really secure safe house.

 

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2erXZG/inhabitat.com/nyc/silohome-cold-war-era-missile-silo-transformed-into-luxurious-underground-house-in-upstate-new-york/silohome-1/?extend=1

 

 

 

As long as the area isn't prone to flooding... I'm in! lol. I've always thought those converted silos were awesome.

Nice! there was something like this in extreme homes.  Fascinating.  

 

Flooding? not an engineer, but I figure the solid concrete foundation and walls would do the job, no?

I want that place

hehe. anyone go on houzz?  pictures of house projects, including a house with a nice 30 yard range in the basement.   

 

Although the next thing, decided between bigger safes and or just build out a vault room in the next house.

As long as the area isn't prone to flooding... I'm in! lol. I've always thought those converted silos were awesome.

I would think they took that in consideration when they selected sites.

This place has been for sale for at least a couple of years.  I had it posted on FB the first time i saw it.....wonder whats wrong with it?

Concrete is not watertight Maks.

House for the ultimate prepper.

I would think they took that in consideration when they selected sites.

 

For our ICBM sites we did take the water table into consideration.  In the first part of the Cold War we did NOT, primarily due to range considerations for short-range interceptors and the overwhelming need for redundancy, for there are plenty of examples of now-flooded underground control rooms at abandoned Nike Missile Sites, including the one on Jake Brown Road in Old Bridge (near the OB Range).

 

One thing is for sure:  An underground ICBM Control Room with 12' thick steel-reinforced concrete walls and a nuclear-rated Blast-Door would make a decent gun safe (if kept dry), lol!

 

Dave

There's an old Nike missile site in Mahwah. Some buildings are still intact, the rest were removed and luxury McMansions reside in their place now in the development known as Rio Vista.

 

http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NY93.html

 

 

Parker, I've been there sledding......at Campgaw Mountain!  With our Boy Scout Troop!

 

Also been to Sandy Hook, Middletown (Hartshorne Woods Cabin w/ Boy Scouts), Rocky Point.  I'm sure you know, so I'll type this for the "Kids":  It's amazing to think that the Army thought it was safe to have nukes explode over our heads to get the Ruskie's Backfire Bombers.  Pin-point accuracy wasn't needed (or could be made to happen) so a nuke blast would knock them down before they could drop on NY.  Only problem is NO thought what-so-ever was given regarding debris or nuclear fall-out raining down on us Jerseyites, lol!  Check-out the Henry Fonda movie "Fail-Safe", for the same defensive technique was employed in that old black and white movie.

 

Take care and nice chatting.

 

Dave

This place has been for sale for at least a couple of years.  I had it posted on FB the first time i saw it.....wonder whats wrong with it?

 

 

If there was even a minor structural problem with the silo could you imagine the repair costs?

If there was even a minor structural problem with the silo could you imagine the repair costs?

 

The silo itself is in terrible shape:

 

 

 

The part that has been renovated is the home and the control room below. 

 

Found these pictures here:

http://photos.syracuse.com/post-standard/2012/07/zombie_apocalypse_saranac_ny_m.html

Nice! there was something like this in extreme homes.  Fascinating.  

 

Flooding? not an engineer, but I figure the solid concrete foundation and walls would do the job, no?

 

 

I would think they took that in consideration when they selected sites.

Just a joke fellas, hence the lol. 

There is a converted silo in the midwest that a developer was transferring into around 12 condos with a few common areas.  Asking price per unit was up to $2million.  Stocked with 5 years of food for 40 people.  Great bug-out place if you can get out to Kansas on short notice.

Doomsday preppers showed a few of them. 

I would think they took that in consideration when they selected sites.

 

 

No, they took into account limitless deficit spending, electricity and pumps in some locations. 

There is a converted silo in the midwest that a developer was transferring into around 12 condos with a few common areas.  Asking price per unit was up to $2million.  Stocked with 5 years of food for 40 people.  Great bug-out place if you can get out to Kansas on short notice.

 

This was the show... I think Travel Channel?  Extreme Bunkers I believe is the name. It should still be on my DVR.