Not only was our house mostly off-grid, with a steady supply of wind and solar energy, but we also had a garden, greenhouse, chickens, and a cache of guns and ammo to ward off anyone wanting to steal our rations.

Which means prepping years’ worth of dehydrated goods, canned beans, flour rice, and generators. We had been preparing for the coming apocalypse for years.

Instead, we had to hunker down in one of the dozen community fallout shelters that lay hidden in some miles from our already middle-of-nowhere trailer deep in the mountains of the Rockies.ĭozens of other families came together to purchase, build and fill a complex web of shelters enough for several families each to last 3-5 years, or until the nuclear fallout cleared and it was safe enough to go out. The rural remote mountains apparently were not enough to protect us from Armageddon. Luckily we had been preparing for this moment for years. We only had minutes before we were to leave with whatever we could carry. I was a young 6-year-old kid who was told to grab his teddy bear and get ready to move.

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