Post by Logan on Apr 30, 2016 14:04:39 GMT -6
Gallatin County will soon no longer be prepared to address the bathroom needs of hundreds of people waiting out an air raid or nuclear winter.
The county currently has 36 Cold War-era, emergency fallout shelter sanitation kits. The survival supplies are stacked inside a garage at the fairgrounds.
The fiberboard drums are 21 inches tall and 15 inches in diameter.
Inside: one toilet seat, one commode liner, 10 rolls of toilet paper, 60 sanitary napkins, 12 packets of commode chemical, one pair of plastic gloves, one tie wire, one can opener, 70 plastic water cups with lids, and 5 feet of rubber tubing. Enough, the drum says, to supply 50 people.
“The kits themselves are a pretty cool reminder of the Cold War,” said Shane Hope, an archeologist on the county’s Historic Preservation Board. “Of the subtle but real fear of a nuclear World War III.”
Read more: www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/county/gallatin-county-flushing-cold-war-commodes/article_60d3446d-c6de-5bd1-bd29-e5fa7cb77d88.html
The county currently has 36 Cold War-era, emergency fallout shelter sanitation kits. The survival supplies are stacked inside a garage at the fairgrounds.
The fiberboard drums are 21 inches tall and 15 inches in diameter.
Inside: one toilet seat, one commode liner, 10 rolls of toilet paper, 60 sanitary napkins, 12 packets of commode chemical, one pair of plastic gloves, one tie wire, one can opener, 70 plastic water cups with lids, and 5 feet of rubber tubing. Enough, the drum says, to supply 50 people.
“The kits themselves are a pretty cool reminder of the Cold War,” said Shane Hope, an archeologist on the county’s Historic Preservation Board. “Of the subtle but real fear of a nuclear World War III.”
Read more: www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/county/gallatin-county-flushing-cold-war-commodes/article_60d3446d-c6de-5bd1-bd29-e5fa7cb77d88.html