A recent Drudge Report article tells of the recently finished New York City Mayor's Command Post...with room for 250 people. It seems like everybody is getting their own bunker...at least all the major cities. It has walls that reportedly will withstand hurricane force winds and "rocket attacks." Just WHAT are they expecting?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 08, 1999

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We're talkin' abaht New Yawk Heah!!!

Before you get REAL excited, it is, what, 30 stories up?? And I bet the building isn't built to earthquake standards.

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-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), June 08, 1999.

There was a great article published in the London Evening Standard about emergency bunkers set up by cities around the country. If anyone can find it, it would make a great link. Goes into more detail than Drudge.

-- Gia (Laureltree7@hotmail.com), June 08, 1999.

Correction to above: Was published on Electronic Telegraph on 4/18/99 Can't access it there but found excerpt at: http://cio.doe.gov/Y2K/OtherInfo/Y2KnYou/FF04-19_23-99.htm

-- Gia (Laureltree7@hotmail.com), June 08, 1999.

"US sets up bunkers to beat Millennium chaos"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000271261842766&rtmo=ws0Aw5Qb&atmo% 20=99999999&pg=/et/99/4/18/wbunk18.html

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), June 08, 1999.

<The 23rd-floor, 46,000 sq ft complex, near the World Trade Centre in Manhattan, can house up to 100 of the city's most senior employees and is protected behind a wall of bullet-proof glass. It was built above ground because of the risk of flooding from broken water mains.>

Stay out of those subways!

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), June 08, 1999.

Especially after watching Ghostbusters!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 08, 1999.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, JUNE 07, 1999 23:55:22 UTC XXXXX

NEW YORK CITY'S EMERGENCY COMMAND BUNKER UNVEILED

Sitting on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, accessible only by a special freight elevator that uses its own power supply, is New York's new emergency command center, a "bunker in the sky."

"The Mayor's Emergency Operations Center" is designed to hold up to 250 people. It will become the Brain Room of the city during a major crisis. The bunker has been built with walls designed to withstand hurricane winds and rocket attacks. The compound also uses a special air circulation system.

The bunker has beds, bathrooms with showers and a kitchen.

There are rows of computer consoles tied into government communications and emergency systems, reports NEWSDAY's Graham Rayman. On the walls are banks of television monitors and projection screens.

Earlier this year, the DRUDGE REPORT detailed an elaborate bunker that sits under downtown Los Angeles.

-- Diane (prepare@highlandtraders.com), June 08, 1999.

There are some very clueless people running the show. Consider this, power out, panick, rioting, looting, murder and desperation. What do think is missing from this list?...FIRE! Their will be fire and no way to put it out. If your sitting in a bunker on top of a skyscaper I'll call you barbecue.

Got potato salad?

-- MidwestMike_ (midwestmike_@hotmail.com), June 08, 1999.

World Trade Center huh- got Ryder truck!!

-- anita (hillsidefarm@drbs.com), June 08, 1999.

Educated guess is they're expecting: looting, rioting, power outages, food shortages, market crashes, and toxic gases. Of course, they'll never tell you that. They say in a nuclear war only cockaroaches would survive....them and politicians. Not sure I'd want to survive for that anyway.

-- Gia (Laureltree7@hotmail.com), June 08, 1999.