Some people stock up on Doomsday Beans or buy luxury Doomsday condo to prepare for the coming apocalypse, but that's not enough for hardcore preppers: for these people, nothing short of a planned Doomsday Prepper Paradise would suffice.
Behold, The Citadel:
The Citadel, as envisioned and advertised by its creators, is to be a walled community of 3,500 to 7,000 “patriotic American families” who are ready for when The Shit Hits The Fan (TSHTF), i.e. the myriad potential society-collapsing disasters, either natural or man made, anticipated by preppers, survivalists, along with other fringe and breakaway strands of -ers and -ists. The Citadel is to be a place for people who want to be “removed and protected from peril in order to preserve ourselves, our posterity, and Liberty in the event of a national economic implosion.” And in whatever time is to be had before grid-down, economic collapse, The Citadel will provide a place to live “a free/freer life in Idaho (or elsewhere in the American Redoubt) amongst the current strong, self-reliant and Liberty-loving residents of the region.”
According to the project’s blog, The Citadel, if completed, will feature the following: the III Arms Factory, a curtain wall and towers, a main gate, a town green named after the Battle of Lexington leader John Parker, a town hall, a community armory, a firearms museum, a farmers’ market, a medical center, a retirement facility, schools including a boarding school, a library, a tourist visitor center, a town center featuring retail and commercial spaces, houses, canals, a lake, ponds, firearms ranges, an archery range, sports fields, a hotel, a bank (III Bank), churches, a power plant, underground shelters, a post office, a fire house, a stockade/jail, a biomass plant, walking trails, orchards, gardens, parks, an outdoor pavilions, a large amphitheater, something called a “command and control center,” a media center, an airstrip, a helipad, a shuttle system, and a parking center. A bird’s-eye artist’s rendering of the project gives off a strong medieval vibe.
Eric Lach of The Talking Points Memo Muckracker has the full story: Link
What about livestock? Will everyone be eating pond scum from the lake? Oh, no natural pond? Koi in the reflecting pond, perhaps? Everyone will be vegan? No place to even raise chickens?? You can have moveable chicken coops that shift every day or so. Goats would help glean the land of debris and dead plant roots, etc.
What jobs will people do? Make guns and bullets? Do they/will they have a forge? What about the materials for making explosives/bullets?
Why a 'parking center' and 'shuttle system'? Wouldn't bikes and walking be more Earth friendly and safer?
Do you really want your 'power plant' smack dab in the middle of your enclosure?
Why a 'tourist center'? A town hall to meet and greet visitors would be enough and that lot could be used for something more useful. If times have gone bad will the 'Citadel' even allow visitors entry? Do they anticipate trading goods with outsiders or do they wish to be totally self-sufficient? Lots more questions, too.
Seems like an overly ambitious layout that needs much more thought involving longterm survival. So many buildings, so little free range land. One bad crop season and it's not gonna be pretty, IMO.
this is basically just a gated community for crazy people