

“Most people don’t think I’ll ever need this shelter,” he said.


He had to bring a work light along for the tour, because the shelter does not have its own lights. “The structure is probably one of the best-designed in North America,” Beach told CTV’s Your Morning during a tour of the facility. The facility is outfitted with washrooms, a well, two large water tanks, large-scale cooking appliances, storage rooms, bunk beds and approximately half a ton of food. The nuclear survival enthusiast built his shelter by fusing 42 gutted school buses together, then pouring two feet of concrete on top. Beach claims to have the largest privately-owned fallout shelter in the country, as well as a plan to rebuild society following all-out nuclear war. With nuclear tensions running high between Canada’s nearest neighbour and North Korea, an Ontario man says there’s still plenty of space available at his massive fallout shelter north of Toronto.īruce Beach says he’s ready to accept 500 people at his Ark Two shelter in Horning’s Mills, Ont., where he’s been preparing for a nuclear apocalypse for nearly four decades.
