Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of the “preppers” who have created or purchased survival bunkers – whether under their personal homes or in communities like Survival Condo in Kansas – have either made ready to move into their units for the duration of the crisis or have already done so. At the same time, some contractors that build survival bunkers have reported an increase in sales and contracts.
Spending on doomsday shelters has been booming since the coronavirus began dominating news headlines during the past few weeks, according to bunker contractors Rising S Company and Atlas Survival Shelters… Texas-based Rising S said the number of new contracts signed in roughly the last three weeks has more than doubled,[and Atlas CEO Ron Hubbard] said in just the past week he did the same amount of business he did in all of 2019.
[But] not everyone expects the coronavirus to spur growth. Veteran contractor Mike Peters of Ultimate Bunker—a Utah-based builder focused on luxury shelters—dismisses the notion, adding the pandemic has had no impact on his sales.
