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 Intrinsic
      
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
 |  | Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
< on 5/19/2009 7:39 PM >
|  | | | Synopsis:
An underground nuclear survivalist bunker located north of Toronto. Made up of 42 school buses buried in the ground.
Contains:
The Surgery (as yet still unequipped)
The Laundry room
The Silent Library (books are in offsite storage)
The Conference Room
The Tool Room
Kitchen
Washrooms
Computer room
The Chapel
The Exercise Areas
A Privacy Room
The Nursery and its Cry Room
Despite efforts to convince the owner, Bruce Beach, for a look at this bunker, he has declined. He seems concerned that people think of him as a whackjob, and the idea of young urban explorers taking a sincere interest seemed lost on this man.
Articles
HORNING'S MILLS, Ontario - Bruce Beach has buried 42 school buses underground near his home in a rural Ontario hamlet in anticipation of the worst disaster mankind has ever seen.
Beach is an experienced bomb-shelter builder and a self-professed doomsayer with an inkling that his moment of truth is finally looming. It may not be January 1, 2000, but it may not be too much later, either.
With help from his son-in-law and three hired handymen the buses have been knitted together in an underground steel labyrinth. He's working on his bunker late into December because the weather is unseasonably warm and time is running out.
The moment he's waited a lifetime for could be just days away.
"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best and expect something in between," is his Y2K motto.
With sleeping rotations, Beach believes he can shelter nearly 500 people. The facility includes air intakes, a nursery, a dentist's chair, a decontamination area and a sound-proof room for people who may have a breakdown.
"If government and big business are concerned enough and making preparations, shutting down pipelines and stockpiling with food...it seems prudent for us to make preparations," said Beach, a 65-year-old with a big white beard who lives with his wife and looks after his 99-year-old mother.
Few Canadians have devoted as much time and effort to safeguard against millennium mishaps as this survivalist, who describes himself as "misunderstood". But then few believe the apocalypse is around the corner.
He built his first bunker in 1964 in Kansas, and would eventually lend a hand in constructing more than 20 of them. Now he has just this one near his house in Horning's Mills, about 100 miles north of Toronto.
He has received e-mails of interest in bunker-making from as far away as Australia and Russia. But he can't find anyone closer to home who shares his interest. "If I knew how to find them I would," he said with a shrug.
He said most people are not interested because they didn't experience the bedlam of the 1960s or the big New York electrical blackout of the same decade.
He believes the millennium bug may not abruptly end the world on January 1 but he says the end could come six months later, following a cascade of geopolitical problems.
"Of course everybody just says 'Beach the nut."'
HORNING'S MILLS, Ontario, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Bruce Beach, a doomsayer who buried 42 school buses and turned them into a bunker in which to survive any disaster, was reorganizing it on Thursday after it was raided by Canadian
police and firefighters.
The 66-year-old Beach, a retired school teacher and expert bomb-shelter builder, said authorities "put the kibosh on" his bunker for seven hours on Wednesday in what he said was a search for weapons and explosives.
No charges were laid. "I call this Waco north up here, easier times and the friendly Canadian version...they came down here, I didn't have any guns and they didn't shoot me," said Beach, who is trying to proof his steel labyrinth of buried buses for his family and guests in time for New Year's Eve when the Y2K bug arrives.
About 40 police and firefighters, 10 cruisers, and one dog arrived in the rural Ontario hamlet where Beach lives built his bunker.
The police were escorting the fire department, said police spokesman Walter Kolodziechuk.
According to Beach, the fire department questioned the safety of his bunker.
"That's the whole idea of it...people are only coming in here if there's a nuclear war or electricity goes out, because it's better than out there,"
Beach said.
Beach said that as a young U.S. soldier in the 1960s he inspected missile launch sites and had "first-hand experience of a nuclear threat, and (got) prepared."
He said he built his first bunker in 1964 in Kansas and later had a hand in constructing more than 20. But he said he now only owns the one built with buses near his house in Horning's Mills, about 100 miles northwest of Toronto.
He started buying and burying the buses in the early 1980s, a decade after he fled to Canada in fear of landing in a U.S. camp for social agitators, he said.
Construction photos
http://www.radmete...truct/photocon.htm
Website:
http://www.radmete...m/arktwo/index.htm
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| |  |  | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 1 on 5/19/2009 7:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by Intrinsic
He seems concerned that people think of him as a whackjob
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I think that is a well founded fear.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 2 on 5/19/2009 7:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
I think that is a well founded fear.
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The man is 85 or so years old and won't be around forever. I tried to persuade him that this would be a great way for younger people to share his passion for his bunker while not judging him... he still declined.
There is also, if you inspect the photos, no way in hell anyone's going to infiltrate this sucker by picking the lock.
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rob.i.am
  
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 3 on 5/19/2009 8:05 PM >
| | | | Would you even want to survive a nuclear war if it meant having to sing "Old bus driver, speed up a little bit, speed up a little bit, speed up a little bit" 24/7 until it was safe to go up top again?
[last edit 5/19/2009 8:06 PM by rob.i.am - edited 1 times]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 4 on 5/19/2009 8:14 PM >
| | | | some haldol would be useful in this case
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 5 on 5/19/2009 8:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
some haldol would be useful in this case
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It gets even better...
http://www.webpal.org/
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vapula
Location: kitchener, ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 6 on 5/19/2009 8:18 PM >
| | | | omg...
.....wah? |
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 7 on 5/19/2009 8:22 PM >
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This one bothers me greatly...
3. Renewal - of religion
So the end of the world has come, but an essential part of this is bring back religion?!?!?!?!
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 8 on 5/19/2009 8:27 PM >
| | | | I would love to own that place and use it for drunkened sex orgies and a hippie commune
it is big and cool.. but missing a very important room
THE GARDEN!.. you would want to start a fresh garden of fruits and vegetables as soon as possible and have rotating crops.. also all of the light in every room could instead of just glowing on chairs and stuff, be growing oxygen rich food providing plants on every table and corner..
Plus a giant water reservoir would be fantastic, not just to water all of these plants but to have a really adequate water supply in case the War lasts more than a few years and the threat of nuclear missiles continue or the surface becomes a 24/7 kill fest for 25 years
I am not surprised on him not wanting attention to it tho.
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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G.U.
Location: Sudbury/Meaford, ON Canada QC
Gender: Male
Get your F****** towel ready.
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 9 on 5/20/2009 3:46 PM >
| | | | NO guns?
...guess it's back to the 'ole crowbar to deal with the zombies.
~"Why did the geologist take his girlfriend to the quarry? She wanted to get a little boulder, and He wanted to get his rocks off."~ ~When your hands are tied, Kick...Ass ~ My Flickr! |
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 10 on 5/20/2009 4:39 PM >
| | | | I'd build one of those. Not even as a bomb shelter, just cuz I'm fucking strange and would be totally satisfied living underground in a network of crazy bus tunnels.
hi i like cars |
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G.U.
Location: Sudbury/Meaford, ON Canada QC
Gender: Male
Get your F****** towel ready.
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 11 on 5/20/2009 5:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by bandi
I'd build one of those. Not even as a bomb shelter, just cuz I'm fucking strange and would be totally satisfied living underground in a network of crazy bus tunnels.
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PMCL & TTC busses, just to be DIFFERENT
~"Why did the geologist take his girlfriend to the quarry? She wanted to get a little boulder, and He wanted to get his rocks off."~ ~When your hands are tied, Kick...Ass ~ My Flickr! |
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Banditt
Location: T.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 12 on 5/22/2009 1:53 AM >
| | | | Personally, I really like the idea.
FLICKR
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G.U.
Location: Sudbury/Meaford, ON Canada QC
Gender: Male
Get your F****** towel ready.
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 13 on 5/22/2009 4:03 AM >
| | | | Posted by Banditt27
Personally, I really like the idea.
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Really like the idea of the world going up in flames?
Or the idea of burying buses to create an underground sanctuary...
Hmm, Ya know? I kinda like both too now that I think about it.
Life would just be so simple. Nobody could leave you or they would die...
Mwuahahahaha.
Lets get an over-sized Ford van and we will all tour out there with some oragami tin foil hats and 10 bucks each and plead to see the 'facility' because we know the apocalypse is coming and just want an idea of how to build one.
Then leave with the promise of calling him next Wednesday to arrange the project after we have thoroughly checked our home phones for bugs.
Then not call.
*giggles*
~"Why did the geologist take his girlfriend to the quarry? She wanted to get a little boulder, and He wanted to get his rocks off."~ ~When your hands are tied, Kick...Ass ~ My Flickr! |
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unlisted
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 14 on 5/22/2009 6:55 AM >
| | | | Better yet, one drive a old bus as a donation, instant "in" 
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 16 on 5/22/2009 7:16 PM >
| | | | Nah, those pics are from the author's site. I debated sneaking in but the size of the mofo lock on the door plus the chain link fence made me see the folly. 
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Gracetoo
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 17 on 5/28/2009 10:13 PM >
| | | | Okay, I just called my mom.They have a place about 20 mins from Dundalk and she said "horny mills" hmmm hornings mills (I need a minute of my life back LOL).is pretty close to them.
She has heard of the dude, AND she says a lot of this goes on in Grey county, grey highlands.It is still very densely populated and a lot of hippies and war defectors used to live up there,
She is going to ask her friend for more info this weekend.
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gambino
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 18 on 5/28/2009 10:28 PM >
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I ended up contacting Bruce myself after that thread, we exchanged emails, and he later invited me to tour the property.
No one is going to get in, I'll leave it at that.
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ark Two Facility (Hornings Mills, Ont)
<Reply # 19 on 5/29/2009 2:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by gambino
I ended up contacting Bruce myself after that thread, we exchanged emails, and he later invited me to tour the property.
No one is going to get in, I'll leave it at that.
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Tour the property or tour the bunker? There is a difference. If it's the later, I'd be real curious what you said to him to make him change his mind.
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