Have you heard of Mount Weather? (Bush's secret bunker?)

[Horse with no Name]

I found this buried in the Guardian. I had never heard of it...but I guess it sounds plausible.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1859815,00.html

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Mount Weather is a top-security underground installation an hour's drive from Washington DC. It has its own leaders, police, fire department - and laws. A cold war relic, it has been given a new lease of life since 9/11. And no one who's been inside has ever talked. Tom Vanderbilt reports

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We are sitting, hazards blinking, in Brown's BMW on a rural road in Virginia's Facquier County, a horsey enclave an hour west of Washington DC. The object of our attention is Mount Weather, officially the Emergency Operations Centre of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (Fema); and, less officially, a massive underground complex originally built to house governmental officials in the event of a full-scale nuclear exchange. Today, as the Bush administration wages its war on terror, Mount Weather is believed to house a "shadow government" made up of senior Washington officials on temporary assignment.

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Residents on the mountain did not need to read the newspapers to discern that something was going on there. Joe Davitt, a retired civil servant who lives in a small A-frame house a mile or so away, told me that on September 11 2001 his wife was returning home from Florida. At the bottom of the hill, he says, she was stopped by state troopers, who asked for identification. At the facility itself, he says, "The Mount Weather guards were not only armed, they had their guns in firing position." John Staelin, a member of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, says that on September 11, the county's 911 line received a call from an agitated local woman. "She said, 'I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but the whole mountain opened up and Air Force One flew in and it closed right up. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.' So they said, 'Yes, ma'am.' "

[Virginia Dare]

1. Yes, it's pretty common knowledge in the..

Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area.

I know they took many officials out of D.C. the morning of 9/11, because I saw about a dozen black limousines hauling ass down 20th Street. This was before I heard anything about a terrorist attack. I knew about the first tower being hit, but at that point, I still was under the impression it was an accident. Seeing the limousines made me realize something was up so I turned on the news.

I imagine they helicoptered them from Walter Reed or someplace like that out to Mount Weather.

Maybe somebody out there has some additional educated guesses.

[soothsayer]

10. I think we've got bunkers in WV, too, and one plan has taking

members of congress and turning them loose in the shenandoah national forest until the trouble passes, lol (watch out for axe murderers!)

[Virginia Dare]

11. LOL!

Imagine Deliverance with Tommy D., Denny H. and Roy B or Billy F., Felix A. and Trenty L. in the leads!

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Like Dr. Evil's secret lair. n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. But, do they have

sharks with "frikin" lazer beams on their heads? :rofl:

[wakeme2008]

3. BS about AF1

and Site R is Bush/Cheney place and it is only 5 minutes by copter from Camp David on the Maryland/PA border. Been there done that :)

[leveymg]

4. Last time, Bush went to NorthCom HQ (CO). Cheney to Site R (MD)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Yes.

It was mentioned in "Seven Days in May," but with a slightly different name, Mount Thunder. The book came out in 1962.

If you ever see a FEMA job opening posted in Round Hill VA, it's for this place.

Seven Days in May

Mount Weather

Lovely overhead view.

Edited: that Guardian article is full of mistakes. Spelling, date....

[Javaman]

8. Seven days in May...

Great book!! That is a movie that is still very timely and would be an welcomed remake. Only difference this time the Burt Lancaster character would be the hero. LOL

[ThomWV]

7. I'm Not Sure Why This Suprises Anyone

I sort of expect this sort of thing from the present and past Governments. Our history with the second world war and the cold war almost demand such facilities exist. It may not be a rational response to today's threats, but I don't see it as a particularly foolish one.

[Jcrowley]

9. Driving on the Bones of God

Driving on the Bones of God
— You and I may get smoked, but the fat cats will dine on peacock tongues.
Joe Bageant—08/2004
 
It is 7AM, already hot as hell and another code red day. I am cresting Mount Weather on Route 7 Virginia and into the face of a blood red sun behind a pink sticky haze that makes commuting so ghostlike here during the dog days of August. The code red is an atmospheric pollution rating, not a Homeland Security alert. It means the air is not safe to breathe unless you have to.
 
Beneath the sandwich and cigarette wrappers on the floor of my truck, beneath this road and down hundreds of feet within the earth gleams a city planned for the Apocalypse. A complete underground city with apartments and dormitories, cafeterias, a hospital, its own transit system, a battery powered subway. It has TV communication, streets and sidewalks, a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings. A small lake fed by fresh underground springs dreams in its artificial lighting. That's what former government workers who have served inside Mount Weather have said. Others say it is no fancier than your average Army base to be found anywhere in the world, but with a lake. Ever since the Eisenhower administration, this has been the designated place where the important people in government will go in a nuclear emergency or national disaster. Mount Weather is the hub of a nerve center of about 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, which guarantee that the really big players in the game escape even the worst disasters they create with their asses intact. In every likelihood, this "undisclosed location" sheltered Dick Cheney during 911. Employees say it did. To be in charge of the nation from the bowels of this bizarre monument to the Cold War thinking would give far saner people than Cheney Doctor Strangelovian delusions. So we can only speculate what a congenitally paranoid old reptile like Cheney must have experienced. He must have had quite a time keeping that reflexive gloved hand in his lap. Throw in the fact that most of the hired help down there in the hidden city are born-again fundamentalist Christian pod people, (mainly because that's about all we have around here) and I don't know about you, but I cannot think of a stranger damned place on this earth.
 
Mount Weather has always been controversial. Back in 1975 Senator John Tunney complained that Mount Weather held dossiers on more than 100,000 Americans and that huge "bubble domed" computer banks were compiling data on virtually all Americans. He felt Mount Weather was "out of control." We will never know if it was. After two Senate hearings were successfully stonewalled by Mount Weather officials, the inquiry died. At that time Mount Weather's "survivor list" had 6,500 names on it. Understandably, just who made it onto the list was a hot item of Capitol Hill gossip and a grisly status symbol of sorts. Chief Justice Earl Warren is said to have been hacked off because, although he made the survivor's list, his wife did not.
 
http://energygrid.com/society/2004/08jb-bones.html

[Horse with no Name]

14. ....

:wow:

[Double T]

12. Now we know the location of cheney's cave.........

and where the shadow REAL government is located. Interesting.

[wakeme2008]

13. Site R or Raven Rock :)

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/raven_rock.htm

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Site R

People who have driven from the DC area to the Liberty Mountain ski area in southern Pennsylvania encounter one final fork in the road. If they turn to the right, they head off to Carroll Valley. If, however, they keep going straight, they head off to Site R.