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Fortitude Ranch, West Virginia: Survival and Living in the Fortitude Forest on the Upper West Side of the World’s Largest Manifold
If you want to survive the end of the world, you should probably go to the West Virginia branch of Fortitude Ranch, a constellation of five survivalist compounds across the United States.
Some of the rooms, which vary in size and luxury, are stocked with plastic bins and duffel bags, as if awaiting a college student. But there is a more serious purpose at work here: survival. The walls of the shelter are lined with cans of coffee and tuna, as well as huge buckets of food, which can be eaten from a table in the underground shelter. (There are also underground living and meeting rooms.) Inside a locked armory, assault rifles and crossbows repose on wall pegs. A 50-caliber rifle with a scope sits on the table and can be used to take out the engine block of a vehicle. An inert radiation detector is positioned nearby. There are two at each compound. Guard towers ring the property. The dormitories have balconies with clear, continuous sightlines along the edge of the forest.
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