The Underground Shelter Boom | SoCal Connected | KCET

Catastrophic events, pandemics, and fears of the end of the world have prompted buyers to invest in "underground shelters."
In this 2012 "SoCal Connected" piece, reporter Vince Gonzales uncovers the sudden boom in shelter sales across the country.
Ron Hubbard, founder of Montebello-based Atlas Survival Shelters, is on a mission to provide customers with protective and durable shelters that are often housed 20 feet underground on private property.
The shelters provide all of the amenities a normal house would provide, including bunk rooms, a large living room, food storage areas, and water tanks.
Thinking of purchasing an underground shelter in the event of a catastrophic event? That'll cost you anywhere from $35,000 to $150,000.
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[@russeldioneo5187]

I really want to live inside a underground shelter rather than a house, idk seems pretty cool to me

[@IARRCSim]

If I didn't have to convince my wife, I'd do it too. If I had lots of money, it would be a fun trick to have a luxurious underground mansion concealed under a cheap looking little bungalow in an inexpensive neighborhood.

[@Deaf-je5bd]

me too :)

[@preciousdushi]

Me too...

[@darci12u]

Me to...I'd move in a heart beat.

[@lostcause2137]

I would love to watch a show about a family of 4 living in one of these things for 90 days. I know I would be batshit crazy in a week or so.

[@IARRCSim]

That sounds like a popular reality show waiting to happen.

[@jeanblondini5057]

They would be a lot worse off if some major disaster was happening upstairs outside and they weren't in the bunker.

[@gregorybrown4062]

Only need to be inside for 28 days to avoid N fallout

[@oklahomaisok]

Make a dream tornado shelter, could go to sleep at night during stormy weather and stay there all night, enough room for others if need be too.

[@Jon75zzz]

You can probably do way better for $100k

[@evansoutdoors4022]

Thats how much the expensive ones are

[@jeanblondini5057]

These ones a lot of people can afford. There is of course underground bunkers that cost millions of dollars which the average person can't afford. I think it is worth getting one of these ones. I would still bargain with the guy to get the price down though since it is only corrugated pipe.

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

"airlock" Light comes through the cracks

[@How_Lay]

Tiberiu Nicolae "when we have the weather stripping"

[@evansoutdoors4022]

As my family have one i asked him its because the doors cost like 7k and they took it off that to use it and put a mock one for 300 on it

[@deann7898]

$150k? Isn't this just a corrugated pipe shelter?

[@CarolinaGarcia-ye3nh]

Dean Nunyabis 1ooooooooo

[@johnmack5463]

sasuke2483692 this is unbelievably cheap imo

[@itsukimihara]

Air sistem and over pressure sistem and blast doors are very expensive.

[@KB-tg7pf]

What kind of tests did these go through? I know there's a company that drops a car on their shelters. Would this stand up to that? I just want a tornado shelter.

[@davidjamesshaver]

Good on you for wanting a shelter for an actual sensible reason :)

[@shreddedreams]

inefficient use of space

[@scapegoat452]

0:30 "We have an airlock in here now" *sunlight shining through huge crack in door*

[@oscarpineda9308]

T_D_B I Saw that LOL

[@christianmccauley7340]

T_D_B he said something about a weather strip which could probably turn that into an airlock.

[@wingmanalive]

I saw that too! Lol.

[@BillysMum]

He's a thief.

[@johnmack5463]

The Gems no , and his work looks great.

[@jeremiahclark6146]

Hold up, where does ur trash go?

[@locomoco2012]

was up with the eye symbol,

[@destinytroll1374]

Ya know, this would just make a pretty good little house for me lol

[@fritzlee1309]

I live in Kensington and Chelsea, everyone is tunneling underground there too.

[@toppsykratt287]

Is it waterproof ?

[@gavinwalsh5238]

This seems like a deathtrap

[@Iwalkwithghost]

I'm interested

[@daviddickey9832]

Just wait for that power grid to go off frequency just 1 Hz and you have absolute chaos and a restart process that can take months. What could cause that? Well look at Texas, look at the sun, look at the stars and ground beneath you. Civilization is a semi-fault tolerant house of cards, and civilization as we know it has been around less than 200 years. In 1900 you could go back to the farm, you can't go back to that today. Imo it's going to be the things that everyone thinks is completely innocuous that's really going to cause the disaster, and one such thing is just a powder keg, slowly rising, lumbering on the now inevitable path.

[@natopeacekeeper97]

I grew up in Missouri during the Cold War. A lot of homes actually had stocked bomb shelters in their basements. While the adults did whatever they did, the kids played in the shelters. Having lived in several active tornado states and going through several if I had my own house and property I'd at least have tornado shelter.

[@karlhungus5554]

2:16 - Was this filmed in 1995? Look at all those toolbars in that guy's browser! The nightmares of providing technical support to elderly relatives is coming back to haunt me.

[@JP-wx6uh]

Has state of the art futuristic shelter, but runs Windows 95 on his PC

[@karlhungus5554]

@@JP-wx6uh He's a man of the future. He recently upgraded from a Rolodex to a PalmPilot.

[@hippiehillape]

@@JP-wx6uh he stuck a door on the open end of a storm drain and buried it 20' deep Not sure how futuristic anything we just saw is

[@Windshieldchoke]

2023 it’s going down

[@atulagl2008]

$150000 for bunker ? it will be better if you buy a home in different country with this money....during the time of tension just go there....after the war is over you will have something valuable with you even if the economy of your country collapse....

[@hikonz]

Wow, this is the most ignorant comment I've ever seen on KZbin. It doesn't matter where you live you moron, radioactive particles are spread all throughout the Earth. Once enough nuclear bombs are detonated, everybody on the surface of the Earth, depending on the level of exposure, will die a slow and painful death within 2 days to 2 weeks because of Acute Radiation Syndrome. Tf do you mean "buy a home in a different country"?, how the hell would you even know what countries are going to war?, and why would you think I want to move to a different country just to be safe from a war that MIGHT happen? Why are you making clairvoyant statements like "after the war is over"?, are you a psychic or something?, World War III would in all probability be the end of the world. Also, you're referring to war as "a time of tension"?, this isn't two children getting upset over who gets the last slice of pizza, this is NUCLEAR OBLITERATION OF ENTIRE NATIONS. "you will have something valuable with you" What?, are you referring to the money?, if so, how? pieces of paper are in no way valuable during an apocalypse other than to burn on a campfire.

[@JP-wx6uh]

If power is out, hope you got a good generator. Otherwise can't see the TV or anything for that matter.

[@Pendragon501]

These shelters will not save you during an earthquake! Nothing can't match the power of shifting earth plates. An earthquake can rip the bunker in half like it wasn't even there!

[@KATHRYNSmith-ug3jk]

WHY ELECTRIC? WHAT WILL YOU DO "WHEN"!! THE ELECTRIC GRID GOES DOWN FOR GOOD?????????????? IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER THAN YOU THINK

[@henryjraymondiii961]

Don't you mean: "The Underground Shelter...BOOM ???" 😉

[@Rifleman1964]

Air lock? You can see light coming through the crack in the door 😂

[@robertagriffin8612]

Ron I LOVE THIS VIDEO! YOU GOT IT TOYOTA!!!Your sensible advise and opinion could not of had it said any better!Oh heck yeah, zombies,never know Got them in my crosshairs.Lock and loaded.

[@atulagl2008]

exactly at 0:30 " We have an air tight door"..........light is coming from door seals.....height of making people fool....

[@rickyricardo4718]

“So far they’ve all been wrong.” Ahhh... Noah was right if you ask a lot of folks.

[@longracing25]

omfg!... MOST cannot afford anything close to this.

[@katheygarciagarciay5359]

How do this one cost now .how long to put it in the groundD. Do you e mail me back with the numbers and 8beds to water proof to? Kg

[@cadenpethers8265]

hey me and my brother are preppers and we thought of a 7 school bus bomb shelter with the glass and outside covered in steel and all welded together to make a giant "+" t

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Hunker down for one year? No way. Water would run out and no place to stash the trash.

[@heatherdawn4484]

What happens if you are a diabetic or you have epilepsy or heart condition and you needed your medication for a year? Just saying!

[@IARRCSim]

prebooking and prepaying a funeral is the best insurance policy for that person.

[@manolobonilla1803]

Heather Dawn survival of the fittest

[@bryeninety-four1870]

I want this. Because i have a phobia on typhoon and storm.

[@juliusaupyrian3046]

its better to live in heaven than a destroyed earth in time of this.

[@matjazgorisek984]

2:26 Will Ferrel

[@wearedustinthewindinthewin7239]

Does it really work out?!

[@davidtate166]

I buy this 👍 very 😎 150000$ cheap .I did this .

[@jayhome2715]

You don't want to survive a Nuclear War......trust me on that one.

[@phillipthrasher6812]

this is phillip where you can buy them shelters at I'm from south carolina

[@johnskidmore9020]

ASK HIM ABOUT THE ONES HE AND HIS CREW MESSED UP AND HE WONT GO BACK AND FIX THEM

[@Ryan-nq6ck]

We got a vault with beds and food in a forest

[@nslouka90]

The guys name is Ron Hubbard

[@aberdeencompassionsociety]

our hole is 1 mile deep

[@jamesbasaldua100]

Your videos have a lot of information if people would only listen. When are you going to make a video about your 14 × 50 bunker . Take care and be safe but have fun on what you do. Signing off now

[@anubhavroy4499]

War Begin OMG 😲

[@officiallynmotion7100]

Watching during Covid Era, civil unrest situations lol, however, this shelter i snot as useful. Still need a garden for food, people are unemployed and cant afford it, people don't own land to support this, and is 20 feet below good enough for any modern bomb, not likely but who knows. I like the idea of using culverts in some hobbit style homes but not for anything more than thermal barrier to reduce heating and cooling cost and maybe against a hurricane or tornado.

[@AkashProductions1]

Well you won’t be Looking at tv when the nuke war hits No tv shows

[@sherribrawn3757]

What about a good old fashioned global pandemic?? Are you in the market for that??

[@RS-vw4dd]

Great but people really don't last more than a week they go crazy being under ground

[@LibertyWarrior68]

+Robert Silva It's not realistic long term, but may help you get out of a bad situation.

[@johnmack5463]

better than nothing

[@Deaf-je5bd]

at end of video... massive waving.... wont water get in those bunker? after all air filter connect surface

[@orethawitcher1217]

Seek Jesus

[@whatever895]

clown

[@Reverbar-Fe]

Eu quero comprar uma vcs entregam para o Brasil?

[@ktsujungel]

zombie haha

[@carmenlangland1393]

Exactly,be ready is better than wait,can happen in a blink the eyes.

[@GawgaCracka]

100k culvert pipe....GEESH!

[@quietman.g2664]

Imagine when nukes drop and you’re inside your bunker, waiting and wondering if anyone is left

[@Cali_luv213]

The living dead ⚰🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

[@jerryd.leonard2947]

Best business is based on fear not economy. Good job

[@danielsoto8601]

This would be good for tornados.

[@lucmi87PD]

why??? ....why????' ahahahaha americans

[@MrKfq269]

Dude stop with the zombie.

[@johnnyrotten8801]

Zombie.

[@melindac.flores3991]

It's the cost of a house. I'd buy it as a house lol

[@elinajames8064]

I love that, awesome

[@Amitkumar-ro7fj]

Hi

[@marcelojaviertwt]

*WHAT A BUNCH OF...* _YOU KNOW..._

[@srvjediknightsrv750]

are they emp proof

[@johnbreinholt8275]

You might want to check the order of the words in your video’s title 😂😂😂 A shelter bomb sounds like a bomb to be used in a shelter. Shelter bomb and bomb shelter two very different things

[@刘宇龙-g9n]

爷，，，哪门一出入或另有出路，，，?。 若門有咔而，，，?。

[@rptraveller1386]

How can we buy it i'm from cambodia

[@gulabsinghsingh7248]

RP Advanture Cambodia don't worry Cambodia is very safe country Relax Nothing will happen there

[@vickiehodges7333]

I WOULD LIVE IN THAT !!LOVE IT.

[@robertjr.dronelife6776]

150k hahahahahh

[@cdyoung976]

It's not air tight when I can see light through the door crack bro!

[@Slicks_16]

yeah i know although his new bunkers come with a gas tight submarine grade door that can also withstand a bullet up to a .50 cal

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

Anyone else creeped out when the shelter guy showed all the pictures of little kids in the bed?

[@johnnyrotten8801]

Did you know that its actually you thats the creepy one i'll tell you why ..... If you have the thought of it being creepy or sexual in the first place then you must have a twisted mind ....study shows that people who think like you have are the ones to be concerned about.

[@johnnyrotten8801]

Its like when people say stop being homophobic .....theyre usually the homophobic ones.

[@jeremygreiss2061]

This actually gets me thinking of showing my parents this video because it's true

[@studlygrish]

one year isn't squat ! You can't stay a day in these! You have to come out every 8 hours to refile your generator !