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‘We Needed to Go': Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans
"Escape from L.A., New York and just about every place else.[MSN] As coronavirus infections tore across the U.S. in early March, a Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co. He wanted to know how to open the secret door to his multimillion-dollar bunker 11 feet underground in New Zealand. The tech chief had never used the bunker and couldn’t remember how to unlock it, said Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based Rising S Co. "He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra water or air filters," Lynch said. The businessman runs a company in the Bay Area but lives in New York, which was fast becoming the world’s coronavirus epicenter. Can’t remember the combination. Some might say "Pity." Others might say "Tough $hit." "He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that’s happening," Lynch said, declining to identify the bunker owner because he keeps his client lists private. "And as far as I know, he’s still there." For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in the doomsday survival plans of wealthy Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyze the world. Isolated at the edge of the earth, more than 1,000 miles off the southern coast of Australia, New Zealand is home to about 4.9 million people, about a fifth as many as the New York metro area. The clean, green, island nation is known for its natural beauty, laid-back politicians and premier health facilities. Rising S Co. has planted about 10 private bunkers in New Zealand over the past several years. The average cost is $3 million for a shelter weighing about 150 tons, but it can easily go as high as $8 million with additional features like luxury bathrooms, game rooms, shooting ranges, gyms, theaters and surgical beds. There's also the option of floating around in remote places in the world for the super-rich. Yachts. For the rest of us, we can wait it out where we are. You might find some plans on YouTube to build your own ventilator. Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-20 |
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