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I recently drove near Walker Lake, in Nevada. This place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, between Reno and Las Vegas. Then suddenly, I see thousands o
by cbanek 9y ago
I recently drove near Walker Lake, in Nevada. This place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, between Reno and Las Vegas. Then suddenly, I see thousands of those little igloo bunkers start popping up, just dotting the landscape in strange patterns.
I was amazed at the simple engineering put into them, the spacing was perfect, they had been buried, but like a pill, a line had been cut into them with a door, to prevent the blast going through the door unprotected.
I later found out that I had driven past the Hawthorne Army Depot, which has one of the largest reserves of ammunition in the world. Very neat and strange. Something I would expect out of Nevada.
- refurb 9y agoI had a similar experience driving through northern Oregon. Little bunkers dotting the landscape as far as you could see. It was the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot. It took maybe 30 minutes of driving at 70 mph to traverse it north to south. Massive complex again in the middle of nowhere.