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Best places in the U.S. to survive the apocalypse: Greenbrier
Best U.S. places to survive the apocalypse
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The Greenbrier Resort
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Jon
Sep 20 2010 at 5:57 PM
Good going Washington Post. Way to waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars just for a story. They've been leasing this place since the sixties. Now, they'll have to build another secret bunker for Congress at the taxpayer's expense. Stupid.
Tom
Jul 08 2011 at 4:50 PM
Right, Jon, because there are going to be a lot of people wandering around during an apocalypse looking for ways to get at Congress. Stupid.
Truth
Oct 15 2010 at 11:28 AM
Or the government stops spending money on a bunker that isn't needed and won't work. If there's a nuclear war, preserving 435 squabbling Congressmen/women should be pretty low on the priority list.
Tammy
Sep 14 2010 at 10:00 AM
When I saw this at Greenbriar last fall, all I could think was, where is the new facility.
The Greenbrier Resort
The Greenbrier is a luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., but it’s not the hotel’s lavish amenities that make it ideal for waiting out the apocalypse. It’s the massive underground bunker beneath the property.
The 112,544-square-foot bunker was commissioned in 1958 to house Congress in the event of nuclear holocaust. The facility, which was built 720 feet into the hillside, was completed in 1961, and the Cold War government immediately stocked it with survival supplies. The bunker had three outdoor entrances and one secret entrance inside the resort — a 25-ton blast door. It also featured decontamination chambers, a power plant, water storage tanks, a clinic with operating rooms, an intensive care unit, a pharmacy and dormitories that could accommodate more than 1,100 people. How did the government upkeep such a massive survival effort? A group of employees worked undercover as Forsythe Associates, a company hired by The Greenbrier for audio/visual services.
The location of the facility remained a secret for more than 30 years until The Washington Post exposed it in a 1992 article. At that time, the government ended its lease agreement with the resort, and The Greenbrier began offering bunker tours. Although the underground bunker is no longer stocked with survival supplies, it makes an ideal apocalyptic hideout — especially in the event of nuclear war.
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