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| ‘We Needed to Go': Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans |
| 2020-04-20 |
| "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 neveÂr 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 |
| #19 ..Epstein's' estate in New Mexico is probably available. Oh, wait, not that kind of cattle. nvm. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-20 21:47 |
| #18 My next door neighbor just sold out 1000 acres for $4.5m to a guy that flew in from LA and wanted 'a cattle ranch away from the road'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-20 20:07 |
| #17 I think their Rugby Team may be... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-20 18:40 |
| #16 Aren't Maoris cannibals? When the SHTF, if the New Zealanders don't eat them, their new Chinese overlords will. |
| Posted by: Gromolet Craiting5425 2020-04-20 18:15 |
| #15 'We Needed go Go' You don't need to come back. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-04-20 18:01 |
| #14 #11 Any way we can lock him in the bunker once he's inside? Dad said that the Marines blew the bunkers closed,squirted them with Napalm, or buried them with dozers on Peleliu. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-04-20 17:31 |
| #13 ^ nice, Frank! Snark O' The Day |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-20 14:04 |
| #12 "Here we are, sunning and having cocktails on the forward deck off the coast of Somalia. Look, these nice local fishermen with automatics weapons are coming out to sell us fish....Why the grappling hooks?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-20 12:36 |
| #11 Any way we can lock him in the bunker once he's inside? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-20 12:36 |
| #10 How long until a yacht is taken by pirates and the hombre rico is held for ransom? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 12:11 |
| #9 Yachts are for evading local regs on prostitution.. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-04-20 12:05 |
| #8 Remember a few weeks ago when that Geffen dude had the gall to send via social media a photo and a note about him "toughing it out" on his yacht. What a f'in putz. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-20 11:30 |
| #7 Panic Tourism. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-04-20 10:58 |
| #6 No problem, thx |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-20 10:32 |
| #5 Thanx. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-20 10:30 |
| #4 Moved 10:14 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-20 10:14 |
| #3 Lots of sheep in NZ; just sayin'... |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-20 09:48 |
| #2 These people must think their life is worth more than others? What if someone forgot to tell this guy when the pandemic was over? Hmmmnnn. New Zealand? Isn’t that where the left-wing political elite class like to go? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-20 09:24 |
| #1 Probably should have posted this on Non-WOT. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-20 09:21 |