Happy Thursday Fixers! Phew, what with all the war talk these last couple weeks, on top of the nigh improbable inevitable doomsday glinting at us from 2012, I thought today we might take a look at how one Canadian by the name of Bruce Beach is making sure humanity survives the nuclear holocaust. Take a look at this swanky fallout entrance.

You see, it all started in 1980 when Beach, a radiological scientific officer, decided that his line of work was going to kill us all. I can only imagine what began as a guilt ridden hobby ended up blossoming into a full on obsession. Over the next thirty years, Beach and his friends and family used 42 decommissioned school buses to form a 10,000 square foot underground city with enough room and supplies to house over 300 people. They then poured thousands of pounds of concrete over it, which had to be kept damp for months in order to set without cracking, and topped it off with fourteen feet of soil.

Beach proudly states that this homemade bunker can withstand anything short of a direct nuclear strike; though if movies have taught us anything, it’s that no one bombs Canada and it’s too cold to sustain zombies. But some of his work is just awe-inspiring in a can’t look away kind of way. For example, after passing through those Dharma-esque doors, inhabitants travel down the conveyor corridor…

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I am absolutely fascinated with stuff like this. Not that I worry about the end of the world, just because I think it’s amazing that someone would exert the time and effort to create something so cool!