Random curiosity poll. Have you ever been in the air raid shelter or built in bunker thing of your building or neighbourhood?
- Oh yeah, it has a community space in it (7%, 6 votes)
- I've peeked inside, not spent time there (7%, 6 votes)
- No, but I know where it is. (10%, 8 votes)
- Nah, not really. (10%, 8 votes)
- ...the what in the what now?? (64%, 50 votes)
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Used to live in a building that had a little gym and a snooker table inside the shelter in the basement. You could just go hang out there, but there was a big sign saying: "Don't close the big door for fun, it's more difficult to open than you think!"
Another building was just full of junk, but a bunch of enterprising kids could get in there fairly easily. This one? Haven't been in it.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I don't think we ever really had them here, aside from core government and communication services 🤔
The old nazi bunker that housed some of that during the Cold War is up for sale now, though;
dutchnews.nl/2025/02/for-sale-…
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_v…
bunker in Zuid-Holland, Nederland
Bijdragers aan Wikimedia-projecten (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sindarina, Edge Case Detective • • •Lauma Pret 🕸️
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •My building doesn't have it. Not sure about my town.
People do sometimes put Finnish civil security infrastructure as an example we should strive for....
Anne Deschaine
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Hypérion
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Hypérion • • •Julia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I don't think there is any where I live? At least I don't know of any and I've lived here all my life. It's just a small village though.
The high school I went to had a bunker in the cellar with huge thick and heavy doors painted in 1980s sickly-green, I always found that kind of weird as a kid. Then again, Chernobyl was still very much in people's memory I guess. (I wasn't born yet when it happened, but my siblings were 6 and 8 at the time and told me they weren't allowed to go/play outside... scary. But I'm rambling off topic here.)
Don't know if that high school bunker still exists, but that's the only one I know of. 🤔
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Julia • • •Julia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Limnobotanik
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Lotta
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Lotta • • •Lotta
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •@Lucia they sealed off the last of those here at the end of the
cold war.
Also: here when the nukes fall those won’t last 30 minutes.
We’d get about 40 of em
Limnobotanik
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Though I always kept the door open when we worked in there. Too claustrophobic!
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia where I live we have old WWII shelters, but they aren't in an usable state; periodically they open them for visits, but I've never managed to go to one.
On the other hand, some 10 km north of here there is the border with Switzerland, and over there afaik up to a few years ago every newly built building had to have enough shelter space for all of the expected inhabitants, which is how I know about shelters in residential houses (afaik these days they are mostly used as storage)
I've never been in one of them either, however.
I've driven on the motorway in the Sonnenberg Tunnel, does that count? :D (I don't think so) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenbe…
edit: I've just noticed that I had copypasted the wrong URL (and now you all know what I was talking about with friends yesterday evening)
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Wonderdog
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •There is one remaining, abandoned, crumbling, WWII concrete air raid shelter, little more than a shed above ground, about 5 minutes drive from where I live, that would fit maybe 15 adults if they were squished in.
If a bomb comes, we’re toast.
PointlessOne :loading:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to PointlessOne :loading: • • •😅 I did think, when I was already in bed, that there wasn't an option like "voting in Ukraine ✨"
I hope the ones you've been in haven't been utterly terrible!
Solidarity from Finland, it's not great being neighbours with the despot next door, at least they've not marched across the border here yet...
PointlessOne :loading:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Thank you.
I mean, it's not only Ukraine. There are two distinct contexts for this poll. Well, maybe three: in war zone, a war is a broadcast from a far away land, and there’s above 0% chance it happening here. I'm glad the results here are what they are, though. Gives a little hope.