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I'm now thinking of putting a second underground bunker in my backyard.

The hole was about 11.5ft deep, and the bunker is a bit smaller because there is concrete that surrounds it all. Building it was fairly simple; we just dug a massive hole with a digger. That part only took two days. Then we built a metal box inside and surrounded it with concrete. Of course, that was a lot of work because the metal structure was fabricated and welded together, but the process itself was simple.

The underground bunker during stages of building in 2015. Here it is pictured before the structure was covered in concrete.The underground bunker is 24ft long, 16ft wide and 8ft high at the center. It's currently kitted out with a couch, a TV, a drum kit and it has a sink. I also store some of my inventions down there—including an"ejector bed", a turkey cooking machine and a flame-throwing guitar—so it's a bit of a"Colin museum" at the moment.

It was about a foot from the depth it needed to be and then of course, COVID hit, and my neighbors never went on vacation. So in 2020, nothing happened; it was just a dormant hole. At the beginning of 2021, I was fed up and wanted to get on. One day, our neighbors went to the grocery store, so I got the jackhammer down there and broke up the last bit of rock.

I'm not sure that my kids think they have the most amazing life, because the bunker has been there since they were old enough to be aware of it. But now they're getting a bit older, I think they're realizing that not everyone has bunkers in their backyard.

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