Mount Weather
If it was safe enough for Dick Cheney on Sept. 11, it should be safe enough for you on doomsday. But the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, a FEMA facility, may be difficult to gain entry to in the event of apocalypse.
Built during the Cold War as a relocation site for high-level officials in case of national disaster, Mount Weather plays a key role in U.S. continuity of government plans. It’s located in the Blue Ridge Mountains about 48 miles from Washington, D.C., and consists of two parts: the above-ground FEMA complex and the 600,000-square-foot underground facility.
Mount Weather has its own leaders, its own police and fire departments and even its own laws. No one has ever been allowed to tour the underground complex, but in 1991, Time magazine published an expose after talking to one of the facility’s retired engineers. He described a sprawling bunker complete with mainframe computers, air circulation pumps and a television and radio studio for post-nuclear presidential broadcasts.
You can access Mount Weather via Virginia State Route 601, but your odds of making it past the armed guards on doomsday aren’t good — unless you’re a priceless work of art. The National Gallery of Art is rumored to have developed a program to transport valuable paintings to the bunker via helicopter in the event of disaster.
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I can tell you one thing right now, the last freaking place I would headed to would be anything that even remotley resembled FEMA!!!!!!!!!!!
ME TOO
While were talking the apocalypse just look at what the Hopis warned about the destruction of the 4th world- they said the ground would shake because of the magnetic polar shift... I wouldn't spend all that money to be in a collapsing hole in the ground.
The government, as our servant who has somehow been allowed to strong arm money from us, needs to be put in it's place. The government owes us an explanation. We do not owe retards on the internet anything, including our personal information.
destroy every single thread on the internet with paranoia. Go tell your LORD AND MASTER Mormon Glenn Beck
destroy every single thread onb the internet with paranoia. Go tell your LORD AND MASTER Mormon Glenn Beck
The places that are used for safety and welfare of the people, and for stretegic military operations should be kept secret and are for benefit of all the citizens of the U.S.
If the government broadcasts all of our high value targets to our enemies, then they'll know just where to strike us, won't they?
You are seriously mentally challenged if you do not understand that the location of every missile silo, fallout shelter, or any other 'high value target' is already known by any and all of our enemies. Grow up, blowhole.
I would like a tour of this and other facilities your government keeps secret. No one anywhere in the world should be kept in the dark about such things.
it should be our right to know about everything the government builds, sells, and anything in writing. It should be against the law for any and all who keeps us in the dark about their dirty little secrets.
Your another one of the many idiots that are slowly, and now with Osama, I mean Obama as president quickly destroying this country. Are there abuses sometimes? Yes. And they should be dealt with but there are things YOU don't need to know because you can't handle the truth.
I wouldnt wanna have yo' baby
Verna, why don't you start by setting a good example for "the government."
Please post your name, home address, Social Security number, phone number, a couple of photos, the numbers for your bank account(s)...
Why should you be allowed *your* "dirty little secrets"?
Earnan, that is about as off base as you could possibly be, the government builds these things with money it forcibly takes from us, and in the case of Mount Weather and the Resort in WV, are there to protect art and our Congressmen, Congressmen should get no special protection from the consequences of their own actions.
Verna on the other hand does not owe anybody any personal information, because he is not acting as your agent nor acting with your resources.
The government built those sites to protect "continuity of government," so that if the mass-murdering Soviets decided to start World War III, the United States would have some remnants of its ELECTED government, rather than forcing us to rely on the dumb luck of the draw and the wishful thinking that an Undersecretary of Agriculture is just as good a war-time leader as an elected President.
Verna is a self-righteous idiot, much like the self-righteous idiots at the Washington Post who published.... More
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