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graham4anything

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6. However, in flood areas, in hurricanes like Sandy, people underground would drown or buried alive.
Tue May 21, 2013, 02:21 AM
May 2013

The NYC tunnel from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and the Holland Tunnel from NJ to NY both flooded big time.
(and those were built under the water, not in the water, so to say, and were suppose to be unfloodable, yet they flooded.
Imagine if one lived in there).
Being underground does not help the whole country where the terrain is different.
and people need sunshine. Underground would be prison like. Or survivalist like. And would lead to people being scared of going out into their daily lives such as working and shopping for essentials. It would be very isolationist imho.

Personally, I couldn't think of anything worse than not seeing the sun and hiding underground or living in a cave.
Be like being buried alive.
One can't outrun Mother Nature.
And I for one wouldn't want to be here with say 20% of the people, if the other 80% of the people were not.
Humans were not meant to be anti-social. imho

So much of what is wrong these days is people spending too much time holed away without being among random people at all times of the day.

It would also seem like the air would get very stale down there, and would require 24/7/365 filtering of the air and if everyone is down there, who would be up there to power anything?

If nobody is in the sun, would the sun still be there (proverbially speaking?)

Who's minding the store while everyone is hidden? And why shouldn't those people have the benefits of those hidden?

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