Most people did not build their own fallout shelters. Most would also need a bucket with a cover, but the Lee sisters installed a bathroom in their fallout shelter. They would need to stock supplies for those two weeks – books, flashlights, batteries, food, fresh water. When the bombs drop and the proverbial dust settles, the literal dust will be radioactive “fallout.” Signe and Selma would have sat in their fallout shelter for about two weeks until radiation levels dropped low enough allow them to survive going outside, getting in a car, and driving someplace less radioactive. Those thick concrete walls are there to block radiation. The thick concrete walls would protect me from a sizable blast but these shelters were different than the bomb shelters of WWII. It takes up a big chunk of the northwest corner of by basement, 15’6” long and 7’6” at the widest on the floor (the walls slope up in a quarter circle).
They paid $785 for what looks to be a quarter slice of a grain silo tipped on it’s side with 8.5 inches of concrete poured on top of it. The home was owned at the time by sisters Signe and Selma Lee. On November 3, 1861, the owners of my house applied for a building permit for a home fallout shelter. Clay County’s sheriff and head of Civil Defense, Parker Erickson, said “Evacuation is out. Kennedy began encouraging people to build their own home fallout shelters. In the fall of 1961, however, Civil Defense changed tactics. Everyone living in Clay County would be evacuated. North Moorhead would take Highway 75 to Ada, the central downtown corridor would go east on Highway 10 to Detroit Lakes, southwest Moorheadians would take 75 to Breckenridge and those living in the southeast part of town would take Highway 52 to Fergus Falls (this was before Interstate 94 reached us). Civil Defense hung 20 signs around Moorhead detailing the evacuation routes. People were instructed to put 50 miles between them and Fargo-Moorhead. Authorities developed a plan: If World War III breaks out, we’d all get the heck out of here! In 1957, Civil Defense named Fargo-Moorhead a possible target for Soviet Atom Bombs.
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