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We’re gonna be destroyed in this. I’m so scared right now honestly. 😔 America is Russia and north Korea’s target rn and I’m in Maine….😭 WHY CANT WE ALL JUST LOVE EACHOTHER AND WORK TOGETHER 😖
It makes excellent algorithmic sense. Simons MCN AI suggested it then the humans in the basement edited it into a non googlable transcript. Good work Factboi ❤
The fact that I heard about this place on The 100, and would’ve never thought it was actually real. I’m always mindblown every time I’m reminded this place exists and that it’s purpose is true
Awesome show the 100. I think it helped that I already knew all about Mt Weather facility. Made some things make more sense. I’m still in season 5. No Spoilers!
Saame! I thought it was just a trope in tv shows (cuz it shows up in a few other shows too). Maybe something that's rumored to exist, but we didn't know for sure.
Isn't it ironic that the only people who are assured survival in this hellish scenario are the same class who leveraged power over the world for generations in such a way that brought us to doomsday?
I wouldn't call it ironic. It's all been planned every step of the way from the days of Albert Pike to the moment of detonation and beyond. Societally engineered resets are not new. They've just never been used on a global scale, yet. This time they have intelligent machines to replace the lower classes so survival rates don't matter outside of their inner circles.
You never mentioned "The Greenbrier Resort" hotel at White Sulfur Springs in West Virginia. The Continuity of Gov't BUNKER there was built during the Eisenhower era for all 535 members of Congress. It is 720' underground. It is now open for tours since being disclosed and decommissioned in 1992 after the program was exposed by The Washington Post. Maybe it's worth a MEGAPROJECTS?
Could you imagine being locked up more than 1/8th of a mile underground with MTG, Comer and the rest of the adult babies? I'd do anything to avoid my motorcade making it in time.
A friend of mine has property and has built a house out there not too far from this installation. It is quiet and peaceful. The neighbors all keep to themselves and there is relatively little traffic. Go figure. But one of the things that he’s mentioned is a benefit and a curse is during the winters after particularly nasty storms or even minor sleet, the road is perfectly clear every time while also taking away any excuses for him being late for work.
Was it the lot right next to the 1974 plane crash?? Did he buy that lot and put up a house? If it was, I did your friend's land survey work! Blue Ridge Mountain Rd????
I grew up in Vienna VA. I was 11 in 1972 when the other kids started telling me there was a secret tunnel going from the White House through Virginia to Mt. Weather in the Blue Ridge Mountains. That would have been over 50 miles and I didn't believe. Then in 1991 I was a volunteer with the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail a rail-to-trail conversion of the Georgetown Branch and the first Rail-Trail. I invented the term Rail-Trail for this bike path. The Dalecarlia Water Plant on the DC line had grown up around the RR. Dalecarlia claimed they owned the RR property even though it was clearly shown on the RR valuation maps as being property in fee and not an easement. Looking into the history of the Dalecarlea water works there was huge increase in plant size around 1960 with lots of work on the Washington Aqueduct. Then the Clare Barton Parkway was also being built over the right-of-way of the Glen Echo Interurban. There was also work in and around the C&O Canal. If somebody wanted to put in a secret tunnel from Washington DC along the Potomac River then across to Mt. Weather this would have been more than the perfect cover for it! My later child home house neighbor worked for the Federal Government Printing office and said they were always digging new tunnels around DC. I said they'd be running into all kinds things it they did that. He said they were not big tunnels. Just big enough to comfortably allow a golf cart. That might be the way people would be transported to Mt. Weather. In an emergency they could have long range battery vehicles and people could carry oxygen supplemental equipment if ventilation were to fail. MacAurthor Blvd has the Washington Aqueduct under it. It use to be called Aqueduct Road. www.google.com/maps/place/Dalecarlia+Reservoir/@38.942027,-77.1170833,1163m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b7ca05af5d2683:0x6a58fff7f5127ece!8m2!3d38.9425063!4d-77.1100426!16zL20vMDdseHJy?hl=en&entry=ttu All this new construction of the Dalecarlia Water Plant, along the C&O Canal and the Washington Aqueduct would have taken place just a few years after 1957 Russian Sputnik. It be came clear Washington DC was in range of a nuclear war head rocket using the same model that put Sputnik into orbit.
See now, this all would make more sense if the gov't actually put some money into Small Modular Nuclear power plants, especially the thorium kind. Little thorium plants could power hidden installations for many generations, never needing to peep their heads above ground. Mole people!
It’s like a mega version of 20th century priest hole. Growing up in the UK rural Yorkshire we were told by our parents of a secret tunnel from one Country House to another with fork that led to a demolished lost farm house, built during the 1570s when Catholics were persecuted. Told never to go there we mounted a Goonies like expedition and found the entrance to the tunnel but blocked off a 100m or so in. Still the engineering over 400 years ago for a half mile long tunnel to get away from persecution is incredible.
We live in Frederick County, VA close to Winchester. When we moved to the area 40 years ago one of the houses we looked at buying was owned by a lady who worked there. We didn't ask any questions as I have known some others who worked in classified areas and it wasn't relevant to considering purchase of the house. Coworkers who have known people who worked there said they are all pretty quiet. I know the roads used to get cleared fairly quickly in bad weather...
Hello, we have been neighbors for 40 years. Notice how the FEMA facilities in the area are ate up with nepotism? Recently had a supervisor get 10 yrs in a TCAP sting in Montana? Mt Weather simply hires the mistresses of their security guards nowadays... sad it's fallen so far from grace
A friend of mine was staying at an Appalachian Trail shelter just north of Mount Weather on the night of the airliner crash. He and his friends saw the blast and were sure that they had just seen the first strike of World War III. They scrambled down the trail to the nearest road crossing to find a military cordon already in place. They were told that everything was under control and they should go back to the shelter. In 1981, I hiked the section of AT that goes past the base at Mt Weather. The trail had been shifted entirely to the road because of landowners, except for a spur trail to a shelter. The locals gave us directions like “go up the road just past the secret government base…” The next morning we visited the airliner crash scar on our way to the next gap north. Small debris was still visible. It was sad and eerie.
Mt Weather and other hardened installations like it have had their purpose change dramatically since their construction. When they were initially built they truly were intended to serve as continuity of government installations, but after the Soviets developed the SS-19 which could put a 20MT warhead fused to detonate just before striking the ground within about 300 meters of a target the ability of these hardened facilities to survive a full blown strategic nuclear exchange essentially disappeared, making them far less valuable for continuity of government. However, just like missile silos across the western plains and the huge number of military airbases on American soil to which we could have dispersed bombers, these hardened facilities and the routes to them act as warhead sinks, forcing an enemy to use some of their nuclear arsenal on them and reducing the number of warheads they have available for other purposes because these facilities, left intact, could be useful, and high ranking officials could be on their way to it so you have to hit the routes to the facilities. Additionally, due to their hardened nature, destroying these facilities requires a high yield warhead and most missiles, even those MIRV capable, are only capable of carrying 1-2 large yield warheads instead of the larger number of smaller 100-400kt yield warheads. Furthermore, due to America’s ballistic missile defense capabilities, you can’t be certain that a single missile with a single warhead assigned to one of these facilities will get through, so you likely have to launch 2-3 missiles with 1-2 large warheads each at each of the hardened facilities, which does make somewhat of a dent in an aggressor’s delivery capabilities.
Went to Mt. Weather several times as a law enforcement trainer for ATF during the 1990’s. Extremely nice facility above ground; and we were always treated well by facility staff. Nonetheless, the security was pervasive. Bringing weapons on site would get you arrested no matter your status outside of the gates. Obviously no one got to tour the underground facility, and you certainly didn’t venture off the approved path.
for the last time - "Country Roads" is not about the state West Virginia - it's about western Virginia, if you listen to all of the places mentioned in the song.
Actually it was written while in Maryland and inspired by a street sign along a drive by the writer. The terms and places used are just used to give context of a feeling as I believe.
There is a tunnel system running from DC to mount weather. The tunnels continue from mount weather into WV to multiple locations in the Appalachian mountains
One error in assumptions: they would not be going by road. It would be a helicopter flight, which is less than 15 minutes at max safe flight speed over that terrain.
6:00 Isn’t it possible that “testing mining techniques” could equally mean “mining under the guise of ‘tests’ in order to start the development of a massive underground bunker”?
So... I can see this facility from my backyard.. the little red lights fading in and out are hard to miss. Have to drive around this place if I want to go to work, shop at a nicer mall, etc. And God forbid you wander the mountain roads around it... You definitely just landed on a list somewhere.
@@Defsnot_Momskowerkor yup. And helicopters, and everything else the military has. It is after all a base. But the guys are usually pretty cool if you get lost and end up there. Lots of micro breweries and vineyards in the area. So out of towners end of there by mistake thinking they are at the right place.
This information has changed SO much since 9/11. There are dozens of underground facilities like this in the National Capital area. The older facilities like MW weren't cost effective to upgrade. IT still has a purpose but not what everyone thinks.
do you know how many huge buildings with underground parking lots and footings in DC that the train would have to dodge and bypass? it would be super surprising if such a thing existed.
Exactly engineers, doctors, and framers should be on there. As a proud human I want us to have a chance. No politicians, we do need leaders for civilians though before the end end ig
How would they communicate with most commercial electronics fried by emp? Most likely using AM radio broadcasts. An AM ( amplitude modulation) receiver can be built with very basic components and does not require an external power source. Another support piece of evidence is congress considering requiring vehicles to continue to have AM radios. Another possibility, they could distribute information via HF ( high frequency) radio, which they would already be using to coordinate government operations. They would be able to reach any surviving state governments, as well as any HAM (amateur) radio operators that managed to still be in operation, or pulled spare gear out after the fact.
All vaults in Finland have secondary functions. One might manufactury artillery shells, while another repairs main battle tanks, a third maintains fighter aircraft. Mine stores electronics deep in granite, within thick steel walls. My crew can manufacture and repair a massive list of things. On reels millions of microelectronic components of each type. Not all graphics's cards went to crypto miners... ;)
This is a very cool facility. The engineering involved in constructing the underground living space is truly awesome. It’s good to know that such facilities are in place should the unfortunate disaster/nuclear war come to pass.
I think the hotel in West Virginia with a vast underground bunker "closed" now was intended to house Congress, it even had facilities for Congress to remain in session.
If you wanna read and interesting book on the topic... Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
@@audiooddities9982 The title is appropriate because citizens are most certainly not part of the governments immediate plans lol. If you search the book name here on YT, there's a good hour long video with the author and he talks a lot about it.
My friend has been inside Mount Weather. He works for a 3 letter agency. He told me what was inside but it must have not been that interesting because I don't remember anything other than the mention of a hospital, which we all already know about. It was also 10 years ago that he told me about it.
Crazy to me that the people who have the responsibility to not make such a complete mess of the world will suffer the least consequences for the seemingly inevitable catastrophe.
That's the aspect of every war too. You didn't see Bush in Iraq fighting, you don't see Putin in Ukraine. They just send the young and often poor men to go die for them.
I dunno. There's the saying that the living will envy the dead. Having to spend your life in a bunker certainly seems to be some level of a punishment.
I certainly hope there's some sort of underground tunnel to get there from D.C. Good luck getting through the traffic on Rt. 7 at any time but the middle of the night.
They just hire the mistresses of security and the children of management. No degree and makin 85k a year starting. The place is a cesspool of "Me Too" and nepotism are the only skeletons that will be found
they built two other major ones as well, the first being Raven Rock, which he had already covered and Greenbrier Bunker or the Whitesprings bunker as part of project greek isles.
1:10 - Mid roll ads 3:05 - Chapter 1 - The history ; the facility 8:35 - Chapter 2 - Revealing mount weather 14:50 - Chapter 3 - The "what if" of mount weather
They have YT videos on it and movies discussing it. The secret is way out. There are others we don’t know about. Probably smaller and probably under mansions.
This place is within an hour of where I live…. It is best known secret in the area. They occasionally send out furs that AT&T has a facility there and it is used for that. The Greenbrier Resort is where Congress would go to but they closed that one down.
As an American, I resent you calling this America's Last Hope. This will do nothing for the citizenry and only serves the elite. This merely allows the concept of America to survive through its own zealots.
As an American, I don't have much hope anymore.... We have a government that has, for the last few _decades_ , cemented it's resolve to treat the country primarily as one big company by repealing the few social safety nets that we had back in the 50s, and by blocking any efforts to implement common sense labor laws that would bring us inline with other first world countries. We've happily baked habits of eagerly overworking for unacceptable wages into our culture to the points that doing so is some sort of right of passage into adulthood/manhood for some.
@@moogle68 12/31/2024: AND! The Worst Is Yet To Come!! Actually, It Begins Tomorrow. We don't count and never have. Starting January 20th, we Americans begin to cease to exist even more... Happy New Year! ???
I'm surprised you missed Upperville Airport, which was owned by the late Paul Mellon. Upperville was built in 1957 at a length of 3500', and eventually reached a length of 5100'. Mr. Mellon had his personal Gulfstream II jet parked there often, and it has been host to parties where the guests were brought in on a private Boeing 727. It's also big enough to take Air Force One, but it's highly doubtful they'd waste time landing AF1 there, when Marine One can get to Mt Weather just as fast. That said, any smaller official aircraft landing there can have it's passengers at Mt Weather in just 20 minutes.
Nothing you heard or saw in this video is considered classified information. The existence is in the books and therefore public knowledge, the rest is just deduction and speculation because there is no information discussing the details of how the facility actually operates.
Just because we (the US) have a lot of money and a few bright people doesn't mean that we are anywhere near as good as people like you think we are are at keeping secrets, or at being prepared for sometimes painfully obvious events.
The facility was exposed when a plane crashed into Mt Weather in the 1970's killing all onboard and bringing the news media's attention. "On December 1, 1974, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 514 crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, killing all 92 people on board"
There's multiple large backup facilities maintained across the country for the President by FEMA and a major telecoms corporation. That's not to mention the mobile and airborne assets DoD maintains to ensure continuity of the National Command Authority. Plus most state emergency management agencies maintain hardened facilities that Federal leadership could utilize in an emergency. If you research this topic, it's terrifying but also pretty impressive the extent to which they've planned. Almost every federal agency has some classified continuity related mission people don't know exists, down to the Smithsonian and the National Park Service. They've expanded the bunker in the Whitehouse recently so that the President doesnt need to evacuate for every contingency, but no single facility is going to survive multiple direct nuclear missile hits which is why they would basically play a shell game with the President and the line of successors. They've moved them around between various locations, airborne and mobile command centers. Some could even potentially be "hidden in plain sight".
MORE: 1) Mt Weather, 2) Air Force One (both of them + the retired one), 3) Rocky Mountains location, 4) the other one. PLUS: alternate off shore locations (bases/bunkers in other countries, submarines, and oil rig). 📍 Consideration: internet communications grid choke point targets. Where and throughput/value?
In this case, Mount Weather does indeed remain a critical piece of the U.S government's contingency planning. They are aware they cannot hide such large infrastructure projects.
Up until my retirement we did comm checks with at least Raven rock every night. It’s the plans and C2 command and control functions that are among things which are classified
There is no such thing as secret bunkers. Yeah, to the general public, but the 5 permanent nuclear weapons states know exactly where everyone else's bunkers are, and that they're vulnerable to each other. After all it's pretty hard to hide an enormous underground facility, they need continous upkeep and staffing in order to keep the suitable for use in case of an emergency, and stuff like that is fairly easy for an adversary's intelligence agencies to pick up on. Especially thanks to spy satellites.
get used to it, it will be the only option for most guys, women know exactly what they will be facing in those circumstances, masada will have nothing on what will happen to women, we wont be hanging around too long
8:38 "the inard [sic] of M weather are basically unknown their modern updates especially are way outside the realm of public knowledge" - unless you happen to stumble across various documents in particular bathrooms at Mar-a-lago.
I’m pretty sure Mt. Weather is considered B tier survival at this point, Doomsday survival is most definitely being considered on all high echelons of society. I seriously wouldn’t even be surprised at this point if colonization in space is on the table for some individuals or nations.
Probably do and it's hiding in plain sight if it does exist, in London or underneath. Apart from one disused underground station with track often used for filming as still connected, there are many other abandoned stations that are not so obvious at street level. If one looks closely many deep level tube stations and tunnels have airtight blast doors and filtered ventilation installed during WWII. There is also a warren of tunnels and offices under Whitehall, the heart of Government, many now disused or so they say.
@@wiadroman During the early Cold War in the mid 50's and 60's several nuclear proof control centres were constructed around the UK, some now open to the public as a visitor attraction. Vulcan bombers sitting on runways with engines running on two minutes notice to take off on what would have been a one way bombing mission. The crews that are still alive are glad they never had to but have said they got the pre takeoff checks down to a minute.
Actually, Mount Weather was known to be a military/civilian emergency operations center as least as early as 1964. It is a focus point in the 1964 film "Seven Days in May" starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Mt. Weather and similar facilities have multiple redundant fibre connections to various other bunkers and communications platforms. Even dark fibre to connect into different networks.
What if?? Lets remember that the oil corporations have been creating global warming and unrecyclable plastic for decades knowningly, all that matter are profits, screw the planet, ecosystem and the future of humanity. Capitalism is killing us all yet we continue to let it destroy us.... because the folks running capitalism are brainwashed cultists and if you dare question it, they will murder you or put you in prison.
And it's sh*t writing like that is why Fallout is dead. Van Burean was going to hunt at it but I doubt they would have wrote the idea of Vault-Tech starting the war as a business model but rather an ideological one...but that would require intelligence and Bethesda doesn't have that.
just needed a fluffy white kitty whilest monolouging about targeting the route between DC and Mt Weather, some serious supervillian shit my man! (also that beard is beautiful!)
I was raised and still live in the shadow of mount weather and If you would run into a local who works there and ask where they worked they just say on the mountain.
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Considering it's public knowledge, it's not the last hope. Those are black projects.
We’re gonna be destroyed in this.
I’m so scared right now honestly. 😔
America is Russia and north Korea’s target rn and I’m in Maine….😭
WHY CANT WE ALL JUST LOVE EACHOTHER AND WORK TOGETHER 😖
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It makes excellent algorithmic sense. Simons MCN AI suggested it then the humans in the basement edited it into a non googlable transcript.
Good work Factboi ❤
Beat me to it
THE TIMING😭😭😂😂
Well atleast we know where the enclave will be located
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ill get vaporized i dont want to try and rebuild the world
@@miscme6046agreed
@@miscme6046 We the people vote @miscme6046 to be put in only female vault for the next 100 years.
@miscme6046 we'll just stick you in the hallucinogenic testing vault...
He's played the game!
The fact that I heard about this place on The 100, and would’ve never thought it was actually real. I’m always mindblown every time I’m reminded this place exists and that it’s purpose is true
Awesome show the 100. I think it helped that I already knew all about Mt Weather facility. Made some things make more sense.
I’m still in season 5. No Spoilers!
So you are either wonkru or you fry on the outside
"Bloodreina"
Saame! I thought it was just a trope in tv shows (cuz it shows up in a few other shows too). Maybe something that's rumored to exist, but we didn't know for sure.
It's where they make you think they will go. Lol.
Which proves the 100 is based in Virginia and D.C.
Isn't it ironic that the only people who are assured survival in this hellish scenario are the same class who leveraged power over the world for generations in such a way that brought us to doomsday?
Well, they THINK that they're assured survival... remember Don't Look Up?
I wouldn't call it ironic. It's all been planned every step of the way from the days of Albert Pike to the moment of detonation and beyond.
Societally engineered resets are not new. They've just never been used on a global scale, yet. This time they have intelligent machines to replace the lower classes so survival rates don't matter outside of their inner circles.
Also that they've systematically dismantled the shelter system for regular citizens 😂
Sound u wasn’t born elite
It’s weird right? But at the same time, I wouldn’t want Fred down the road making the decisions
You never mentioned "The Greenbrier Resort" hotel at White Sulfur Springs in West Virginia. The Continuity of Gov't BUNKER there was built during the Eisenhower era for all 535 members of Congress. It is 720' underground. It is now open for tours since being disclosed and decommissioned in 1992 after the program was exposed by The Washington Post. Maybe it's worth a MEGAPROJECTS?
That one is a cool story that I'm pretty sure I learned about from a Simon video
@@Onewheelordeal The CBS 60 minutes show did a story on it decades ago.
He's British. Probably doesn't know who Eisenhower was, much less some place in West Virginia.
It’s a tourist trap now no longer in service
Could you imagine being locked up more than 1/8th of a mile underground with MTG, Comer and the rest of the adult babies? I'd do anything to avoid my motorcade making it in time.
A friend of mine has property and has built a house out there not too far from this installation. It is quiet and peaceful. The neighbors all keep to themselves and there is relatively little traffic. Go figure. But one of the things that he’s mentioned is a benefit and a curse is during the winters after particularly nasty storms or even minor sleet, the road is perfectly clear every time while also taking away any excuses for him being late for work.
Was it the lot right next to the 1974 plane crash?? Did he buy that lot and put up a house? If it was, I did your friend's land survey work! Blue Ridge Mountain Rd????
@ Ya!
He also rarely ever loses power
@ Never.
Politicians survive. I'd rather have farmers, electricians, plumbers, doctors, mechanics...
Imagine being stuck in a bunker with AOC and Kamala 😂
I suppose it is possible they have a servants annex. . . 😂
Funny, cause the ones surviving that way would be the ones who caused the catastrophy in the first place.
I suppose Kamala would serve a purpose if you squint real hard and turned her around. Just saying
@@Shadow__133or MTG, Boebert, McConnell, Gaetz…
I grew up in Vienna VA. I was 11 in 1972 when the other kids started telling me there was a secret tunnel going from the White House through Virginia to Mt. Weather in the Blue Ridge Mountains. That would have been over 50 miles and I didn't believe. Then in 1991 I was a volunteer with the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail a rail-to-trail conversion of the Georgetown Branch and the first Rail-Trail. I invented the term Rail-Trail for this bike path. The Dalecarlia Water Plant on the DC line had grown up around the RR. Dalecarlia claimed they owned the RR property even though it was clearly shown on the RR valuation maps as being property in fee and not an easement.
Looking into the history of the Dalecarlea water works there was huge increase in plant size around 1960 with lots of work on the Washington Aqueduct. Then the Clare Barton Parkway was also being built over the right-of-way of the Glen Echo Interurban. There was also work in and around the C&O Canal. If somebody wanted to put in a secret tunnel from Washington DC along the Potomac River then across to Mt. Weather this would have been more than the perfect cover for it!
My later child home house neighbor worked for the Federal Government Printing office and said they were always digging new tunnels around DC. I said they'd be running into all kinds things it they did that. He said they were not big tunnels. Just big enough to comfortably allow a golf cart. That might be the way people would be transported to Mt. Weather. In an emergency they could have long range battery vehicles and people could carry oxygen supplemental equipment if ventilation were to fail.
MacAurthor Blvd has the Washington Aqueduct under it. It use to be called Aqueduct Road.
www.google.com/maps/place/Dalecarlia+Reservoir/@38.942027,-77.1170833,1163m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b7ca05af5d2683:0x6a58fff7f5127ece!8m2!3d38.9425063!4d-77.1100426!16zL20vMDdseHJy?hl=en&entry=ttu
All this new construction of the Dalecarlia Water Plant, along the C&O Canal and the Washington Aqueduct would have taken place just a few years after 1957 Russian Sputnik. It be came clear Washington DC was in range of a nuclear war head rocket using the same model that put Sputnik into orbit.
See now, this all would make more sense if the gov't actually put some money into Small Modular Nuclear power plants, especially the thorium kind. Little thorium plants could power hidden installations for many generations, never needing to peep their heads above ground. Mole people!
You're a legend. Thank you!
It’s like a mega version of 20th century priest hole. Growing up in the UK rural Yorkshire we were told by our parents of a secret tunnel from one Country House to another with fork that led to a demolished lost farm house, built during the 1570s when Catholics were persecuted. Told never to go there we mounted a Goonies like expedition and found the entrance to the tunnel but blocked off a 100m or so in. Still the engineering over 400 years ago for a half mile long tunnel to get away from persecution is incredible.
Thank you for this story
I've ridden some of those rails to trails and the C&O Canal towpath. Thanks for your work!
i'm definitely a military/tactical nerd but hadn't thought about mount weather since the 100 came out
good to learn more!
Yeah........
The UK has a Dinghy off the coast of Normandy 😂😂
Yeah,it’s called the uk border force and are primed and ready to bring all those future scientists and doctors to our shores.
Your awesome
What do they need all that space for?! 😅
@@stefanschleps8758it’s to bring all those future doctors and scientists to Britain of course.
It would b awesome if Fact Boy covered that as well 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
@megaprojects9649
If you're ever in Ottawa, Canada you must visit the Diefenbunker! Canada's Cold War equivalent is now the best museum tour I've ever taken.
We live in Frederick County, VA close to Winchester. When we moved to the area 40 years ago one of the houses we looked at buying was owned by a lady who worked there. We didn't ask any questions as I have known some others who worked in classified areas and it wasn't relevant to considering purchase of the house. Coworkers who have known people who worked there said they are all pretty quiet. I know the roads used to get cleared fairly quickly in bad weather...
Hello, we have been neighbors for 40 years. Notice how the FEMA facilities in the area are ate up with nepotism? Recently had a supervisor get 10 yrs in a TCAP sting in Montana? Mt Weather simply hires the mistresses of their security guards nowadays... sad it's fallen so far from grace
A friend of mine was staying at an Appalachian Trail shelter just north of Mount Weather on the night of the airliner crash. He and his friends saw the blast and were sure that they had just seen the first strike of World War III. They scrambled down the trail to the nearest road crossing to find a military cordon already in place. They were told that everything was under control and they should go back to the shelter. In 1981, I hiked the section of AT that goes past the base at Mt Weather. The trail had been shifted entirely to the road because of landowners, except for a spur trail to a shelter. The locals gave us directions like “go up the road just past the secret government base…” The next morning we visited the airliner crash scar on our way to the next gap north. Small debris was still visible. It was sad and eerie.
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex also housed the Stargate Program starting in the mid 90s.
😁👍 I thought it was the Wormhole Extreme project.. 😁👍
Mt Weather and other hardened installations like it have had their purpose change dramatically since their construction. When they were initially built they truly were intended to serve as continuity of government installations, but after the Soviets developed the SS-19 which could put a 20MT warhead fused to detonate just before striking the ground within about 300 meters of a target the ability of these hardened facilities to survive a full blown strategic nuclear exchange essentially disappeared, making them far less valuable for continuity of government. However, just like missile silos across the western plains and the huge number of military airbases on American soil to which we could have dispersed bombers, these hardened facilities and the routes to them act as warhead sinks, forcing an enemy to use some of their nuclear arsenal on them and reducing the number of warheads they have available for other purposes because these facilities, left intact, could be useful, and high ranking officials could be on their way to it so you have to hit the routes to the facilities. Additionally, due to their hardened nature, destroying these facilities requires a high yield warhead and most missiles, even those MIRV capable, are only capable of carrying 1-2 large yield warheads instead of the larger number of smaller 100-400kt yield warheads. Furthermore, due to America’s ballistic missile defense capabilities, you can’t be certain that a single missile with a single warhead assigned to one of these facilities will get through, so you likely have to launch 2-3 missiles with 1-2 large warheads each at each of the hardened facilities, which does make somewhat of a dent in an aggressor’s delivery capabilities.
well said
you are giving too much credit to Russian capabilities. Look at Ukraine, their military is enept and the equipment is total shit.
@@billmadison2032 But you must plan for a competent adversary...
@@Rublo01well said.
Like the rest of us, you know what they allow you to know.
Great job saying Purcellville correctly!
I live on the flight path from DC to Mt. Weather. The occasional Osprey flying by looks awesome.
Vertibird. 😁
Went to Mt. Weather several times as a law enforcement trainer for ATF during the 1990’s. Extremely nice facility above ground; and we were always treated well by facility staff. Nonetheless, the security was pervasive. Bringing weapons on site would get you arrested no matter your status outside of the gates. Obviously no one got to tour the underground facility, and you certainly didn’t venture off the approved path.
You trained the atf youre a traitor
Traitor, really? Wtf
for the last time - "Country Roads" is not about the state West Virginia - it's about western Virginia, if you listen to all of the places mentioned in the song.
Actually it was written while in Maryland and inspired by a street sign along a drive by the writer. The terms and places used are just used to give context of a feeling as I believe.
Shenandoah Valley is where I was raised
I grew up right next to it. Black hawk helicopters fly training flights from DC to mount weather almost nightly.
There is a tunnel system running from DC to mount weather. The tunnels continue from mount weather into WV to multiple locations in the Appalachian mountains
One error in assumptions: they would not be going by road. It would be a helicopter flight, which is less than 15 minutes at max safe flight speed over that terrain.
I remember this solely from The 100, I’m glad you finally made a video on this
Dude, Manscaped needs to use your promo as a commercial specifically for the NHL and NBA playoffs!!! That was awesome!
Purcellville Represent! Drive by Mt weather often, some good breweries around it too.
I live 10 miles from Mt. Weather, I’ve been eagerly awaiting this episode 🥲
6:00 Isn’t it possible that “testing mining techniques” could equally mean “mining under the guise of ‘tests’ in order to start the development of a massive underground bunker”?
There was also the Greenbrier Bunker under the Resort in West Virginia for Congress and the Senate.
And as a gag, google maps drops all editing of such places in the minutes between the fact that it has totally hit the fan and being splattered.
So there's a mental image I didn't need at 0630hrs. Simon shaving his sack. 😮😢😅😅😅
I dunno I kinda like it
More so .... Gonverment + Sack shaving lol .... just a nooooo
Why? Isn't that the typical English response to armageddon?😂😂
Just think about his head🤣
I bet it looks like a fkin Yetis armpit. 😂
'Fiddling while Rome Burns' springs to mind.
Simon, you forgot to mention the large ring covered in funny looking shapes in the heart of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
I can already tell it's an antenna array.
@@jpdemer5 no it has something to do with magnets we all know this why are you lying to yourself
@@noeyesmcgee810
The TRUE last hope for America. The Alpha site.
It would been quite entertaining to be in the room with the generals when they read the newspaper that morning
"Well shit."
So... I can see this facility from my backyard.. the little red lights fading in and out are hard to miss. Have to drive around this place if I want to go to work, shop at a nicer mall, etc. And God forbid you wander the mountain roads around it... You definitely just landed on a list somewhere.
They do have guards with full auto capability and authorization
@@Defsnot_Momskowerkor yup. And helicopters, and everything else the military has. It is after all a base. But the guys are usually pretty cool if you get lost and end up there. Lots of micro breweries and vineyards in the area. So out of towners end of there by mistake thinking they are at the right place.
@@CarRant I know, Ive been there working :)
This information has changed SO much since 9/11. There are dozens of underground facilities like this in the National Capital area. The older facilities like MW weren't cost effective to upgrade. IT still has a purpose but not what everyone thinks.
People who watched The 100 know quite a bit about Mount Weather
It's weird because I literally just start rewatching and just today got to season 2/mount weather.
Litteraly half way through the second season
Is the show any good?
That show kicks ass until whatever season all the space people come back.
Oh, great - now I’m going to have to watch that again! 😂
Beneath the white house there is a secret bunker, but beneath the secret bunker there is a secret secret subway that goes directly to Mount Weather.
do you know how many huge buildings with underground parking lots and footings in DC that the train would have to dodge and bypass? it would be super surprising if such a thing existed.
There should be a list of essential persons who should be allowed into the facility!
There shouldn't be one(1) politician on that list!
Hitler?
@@pretzelhuntwhat
It will be full of politicians and generals, plus their mistresses. Wives and family will sadly be forgotten in all that rush.
@@Snoopsthecat Adolf Hitler. Youre saying you want Hitler to use America governments hidey-hole?
Exactly engineers, doctors, and framers should be on there. As a proud human I want us to have a chance. No politicians, we do need leaders for civilians though before the end end ig
How would they communicate with most commercial electronics fried by emp?
Most likely using AM radio broadcasts.
An AM ( amplitude modulation) receiver can be built with very basic components and does not require an external power source. Another support piece of evidence is congress considering requiring vehicles to continue to have AM radios.
Another possibility, they could distribute information via HF ( high frequency) radio, which they would already be using to coordinate government operations. They would be able to reach any surviving state governments, as well as any HAM (amateur) radio operators that managed to still be in operation, or pulled spare gear out after the fact.
All vaults in Finland have secondary functions. One might manufactury artillery shells, while another repairs main battle tanks, a third maintains fighter aircraft. Mine stores electronics deep in granite, within thick steel walls. My crew can manufacture and repair a massive list of things. On reels millions of microelectronic components of each type. Not all graphics's cards went to crypto miners... ;)
Percentage of US citizens capable of building an AM radio without watching a RUclips video on their phone = 0.000000%
3:01 the history; the facility
8:30 revealing mount weather
14:45 the "what if" of mount weather
This is a very cool facility. The engineering involved in constructing the underground living space is truly awesome. It’s good to know that such facilities are in place should the unfortunate disaster/nuclear war come to pass.
As a former commuter ive come down Mt Weather trunk first more than once. Its a long slow slide.
I think the hotel in West Virginia with a vast underground bunker "closed" now was intended to house Congress, it even had facilities for Congress to remain in session.
If you wanna read and interesting book on the topic... Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
Good recommendation
Brought to you by the taxpayers.
Lol, im gonna have to read that. The name is literally what i was thinking during this whole video
@@audiooddities9982 The title is appropriate because citizens are most certainly not part of the governments immediate plans lol. If you search the book name here on YT, there's a good hour long video with the author and he talks a lot about it.
Yeah read it a few days ago and let me say. “Damn they spent a lot of money on themselves”
In the 1990s I lived near Mt. Weather. There is a high speed system for moving critical people to the site. Everything is considered and planned for.
13:00 That isn't gonna help you when Goa'uld attack you know.
Nerd.
No, Stargate is dope.
My friend has been inside Mount Weather. He works for a 3 letter agency. He told me what was inside but it must have not been that interesting because I don't remember anything other than the mention of a hospital, which we all already know about. It was also 10 years ago that he told me about it.
The nature of the topic mixed w the manscape ad is such a vibe switch lol
Crazy to me that the people who have the responsibility to not make such a complete mess of the world will suffer the least consequences for the seemingly inevitable catastrophe.
That's the aspect of every war too. You didn't see Bush in Iraq fighting, you don't see Putin in Ukraine.
They just send the young and often poor men to go die for them.
I dunno. There's the saying that the living will envy the dead. Having to spend your life in a bunker certainly seems to be some level of a punishment.
We used to have the Greenbrier for this, so guess we just got found out....again. Thanks Simon.
LOL HAHA I hit like when Simon started shaving his nose hairs. There was snot and tears...
I certainly hope there's some sort of underground tunnel to get there from D.C. Good luck getting through the traffic on Rt. 7 at any time but the middle of the night.
Currently, there's a "There's a skeleton crew of 75". I know what that means but I like to think there are actual skeletons down there.
They just hire the mistresses of security and the children of management. No degree and makin 85k a year starting. The place is a cesspool of "Me Too" and nepotism are the only skeletons that will be found
they built two other major ones as well, the first being Raven Rock, which he had already covered and Greenbrier Bunker or the Whitesprings bunker as part of project greek isles.
1:10 - Mid roll ads
3:05 - Chapter 1 - The history ; the facility
8:35 - Chapter 2 - Revealing mount weather
14:50 - Chapter 3 - The "what if" of mount weather
I saw they had rooms for doing press conferences and it had clocks for all the time zones all around the rooms. It was pretty cool
If I enter Mount Weather into Google maps, will I suddenly have a cat chasing a dot onto my forehead?
They have YT videos on it and movies discussing it. The secret is way out. There are others we don’t know about. Probably smaller and probably under mansions.
I just looked it up on google maps to find out I live half an hour away from there lol. you can see satellite imagery, it’s not a classified location
Love your videos, truely. Your intro for Megaprojects reminds me of the cut scene from a 90's Bill Nye video on cable access TV
The enclave lol
When i worked for amazon i delivered some ping pong tables to that facility. The loading dock guys and security dudes where pretty chill
Nice to know there is no mineshaft gap.
This place is within an hour of where I live…. It is best known secret in the area. They occasionally send out furs that AT&T has a facility there and it is used for that. The Greenbrier Resort is where Congress would go to but they closed that one down.
As an American, I resent you calling this America's Last Hope.
This will do nothing for the citizenry and only serves the elite.
This merely allows the concept of America to survive through its own zealots.
Enclave: i see nothing wrong with that
As an American, I don't have much hope anymore.... We have a government that has, for the last few _decades_ , cemented it's resolve to treat the country primarily as one big company by repealing the few social safety nets that we had back in the 50s, and by blocking any efforts to implement common sense labor laws that would bring us inline with other first world countries. We've happily baked habits of eagerly overworking for unacceptable wages into our culture to the points that doing so is some sort of right of passage into adulthood/manhood for some.
@@moogle68 And Australia is the same, sad .
@@moogle68 12/31/2024: AND! The Worst Is Yet To Come!! Actually, It Begins Tomorrow.
We don't count and never have. Starting January 20th, we Americans begin to cease to exist even more... Happy New Year! ???
@timmotel5804 yo, can you connect me to your meth dealer? That's some good shit you must be on!
I'm surprised you missed Upperville Airport, which was owned by the late Paul Mellon. Upperville was built in 1957 at a length of 3500', and eventually reached a length of 5100'. Mr. Mellon had his personal Gulfstream II jet parked there often, and it has been host to parties where the guests were brought in on a private Boeing 727. It's also big enough to take Air Force One, but it's highly doubtful they'd waste time landing AF1 there, when Marine One can get to Mt Weather just as fast. That said, any smaller official aircraft landing there can have it's passengers at Mt Weather in just 20 minutes.
The fact that there is enough intel out there for you to make this video is proof that it is a secondary/backup facility at best.
Nothing you heard or saw in this video is considered classified information. The existence is in the books and therefore public knowledge, the rest is just deduction and speculation because there is no information discussing the details of how the facility actually operates.
Just because we (the US) have a lot of money and a few bright people doesn't mean that we are anywhere near as good as people like you think we are are at keeping secrets, or at being prepared for sometimes painfully obvious events.
@@moogle68 as a former army ranger, I do have a vague idea at how good the US is at keeping secrets.
The facility was exposed when a plane crashed into Mt Weather in the 1970's killing all onboard and bringing the news media's attention. "On December 1, 1974, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 514 crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, killing all 92 people on board"
There's multiple large backup facilities maintained across the country for the President by FEMA and a major telecoms corporation. That's not to mention the mobile and airborne assets DoD maintains to ensure continuity of the National Command Authority. Plus most state emergency management agencies maintain hardened facilities that Federal leadership could utilize in an emergency. If you research this topic, it's terrifying but also pretty impressive the extent to which they've planned. Almost every federal agency has some classified continuity related mission people don't know exists, down to the Smithsonian and the National Park Service.
They've expanded the bunker in the Whitehouse recently so that the President doesnt need to evacuate for every contingency, but no single facility is going to survive multiple direct nuclear missile hits which is why they would basically play a shell game with the President and the line of successors. They've moved them around between various locations, airborne and mobile command centers. Some could even potentially be "hidden in plain sight".
MORE: 1) Mt Weather, 2) Air Force One (both of them + the retired one), 3) Rocky Mountains location, 4) the other one.
PLUS: alternate off shore locations (bases/bunkers in other countries, submarines, and oil rig).
📍 Consideration: internet communications grid choke point targets. Where and throughput/value?
If a RUclips channel is talking about it's importance to U.S. survival, it is no longer important for U.S. survival
Everyone knows the government has an oil rig off the coast for its continued survival
In this case, Mount Weather does indeed remain a critical piece of the U.S government's contingency planning.
They are aware they cannot hide such large infrastructure projects.
Up until my retirement we did comm checks with at least Raven rock every night. It’s the plans and C2 command and control functions that are among things which are classified
@@brettr2123not the brightest are you for saying the government can't hide huge projects
There is no such thing as secret bunkers. Yeah, to the general public, but the 5 permanent nuclear weapons states know exactly where everyone else's bunkers are, and that they're vulnerable to each other. After all it's pretty hard to hide an enormous underground facility, they need continous upkeep and staffing in order to keep the suitable for use in case of an emergency, and stuff like that is fairly easy for an adversary's intelligence agencies to pick up on. Especially thanks to spy satellites.
Hey, and actual mega project on the mega projects channel! Yay!
Simon always posting bangers
I grew up close enough to NORAD that I could see its entry lights from my step-dad's front porch
So we're all going to die. Um, butt stuff then?
Not if u believe in God
Well, at least Simon will be properly manscaped, so there's that.
It’s fun you should try even if you believe we’re all sinners and we all sin every day.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🥳 thank you made me laugh 🥃
get used to it, it will be the only option for most guys, women know exactly what they will be facing in those circumstances, masada will have nothing on what will happen to women, we wont be hanging around too long
Can you imagine being the soldier that has to save Congress Critters while your wife and kids die?
8:38 "the inard [sic] of M weather are basically unknown their modern updates especially are way outside the realm of public knowledge" - unless you happen to stumble across various documents in particular bathrooms at Mar-a-lago.
If you down that shower drain there's a tunnel to Cuba
I’m pretty sure Mt. Weather is considered B tier survival at this point, Doomsday survival is most definitely being considered on all high echelons of society.
I seriously wouldn’t even be surprised at this point if colonization in space is on the table for some individuals or nations.
Mount Weather: the place that is said to be where the top people will go that is not really the place they’ll go. In short; a fake out.
Love your videos. I have a serious question. How many different channels are you a part of?
I like this video on Ameriica's Last Hope. Does the Uniited Kiingdom have something similar? (Your thumbnaiil is miisspelled - just haviing fuun.)
America's last Hope is the people
Probably do and it's hiding in plain sight if it does exist, in London or underneath. Apart from one disused underground station with track often used for filming as still connected, there are many other abandoned stations that are not so obvious at street level. If one looks closely many deep level tube stations and tunnels have airtight blast doors and filtered ventilation installed during WWII. There is also a warren of tunnels and offices under Whitehall, the heart of Government, many now disused or so they say.
I don't think so, the idea behind UK's nuclear deterrence is a bit different: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
@@wiadroman During the Cold War the UK did in fact have a bunker system and a Continuity of Government plan. Fascinating stuff.
@@wiadroman During the early Cold War in the mid 50's and 60's several nuclear proof control centres were constructed around the UK, some now open to the public as a visitor attraction. Vulcan bombers sitting on runways with engines running on two minutes notice to take off on what would have been a one way bombing mission. The crews that are still alive are glad they never had to but have said they got the pre takeoff checks down to a minute.
Actually, Mount Weather was known to be a military/civilian emergency operations center as least as early as 1964. It is a focus point in the 1964 film "Seven Days in May" starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
I drive by this location often.
Mt. Weather and similar facilities have multiple redundant fibre connections to various other bunkers and communications platforms. Even dark fibre to connect into different networks.
My manscape 4.0 has knicked me many times. It fails to deliver it's promise.
Wrinkle remover, my guy.
😂😂😂
The best part of this place is we all know where it is, we can ensure it's doors remain closed. For safety.
I’d be editing the guest list to replace SCOTUS with some great young musicians!
I call it, “Save the Arts by dropping the Farts.”
I live 25 minutes away from Mount Weather. If I go to a coworkers house, I can look down at it from a peak of a mountain
"What if...we dropped the bombs ourselves" - Fallout series 2024
What if?? Lets remember that the oil corporations have been creating global warming and unrecyclable plastic for decades knowningly, all that matter are profits, screw the planet, ecosystem and the future of humanity. Capitalism is killing us all yet we continue to let it destroy us.... because the folks running capitalism are brainwashed cultists and if you dare question it, they will murder you or put you in prison.
Well DT did want to Nuke a Hurricane, so that was very much closer to reality than just a PC Game or the Fictional Tv Show based on it.
And it's sh*t writing like that is why Fallout is dead.
Van Burean was going to hunt at it but I doubt they would have wrote the idea of Vault-Tech starting the war as a business model but rather an ideological one...but that would require intelligence and Bethesda doesn't have that.
Loving the videos you do, great in the background whilst I am working. Fascinating stuff. How about an update on the Line project in Saudi?
They shoud hide there and stay hidden forever.
I wouldn’t mind standing guard making sure they do…
Do you mean the govt or Simon, Dave and co?😂
Then RFK Jr if your tired of the corrupt to party system like I am doing
No u
the whole government and their billionaire puppeteers
Cheyenne mountain complex, notably also hosting Stargate Command
Keeping your family jewels in tip top shape for the post-apocalypse!
04:44 "somewhere between 600 and 700 thousand sqft"... that's 5-7 hectares (14-16 acres), a large but not massive warehouse.
These facilities can take a hit, but probably not several hits according to a resent book Nuclear War: A scenario' by Annie Jacobsen
Who gives a F☆ck???
Idiot that Started to Firing sequence SURVIVES Whilst ALL others DIE
She is spot on
And considering most Nuclear ballistic missiles have MIRV's its probably not going to be too hard to get multiple hits within a small area.
I would love to see the electric generators and their fuel bunkers. How many megawatts would be needed to keep that complex powered up?
Pretty sure that mountain will glow in the dark after a nuclear war.
I delivered phone books there years ago. Crazy place Abrams tank under nets at the top of the mountain
congress would be no great loss
just needed a fluffy white kitty whilest monolouging about targeting the route between DC and Mt Weather, some serious supervillian shit my man! (also that beard is beautiful!)
Oddly, those hardened electronics were extended use of vaccuum tubes, impervious to atomic radiation
@JimAllen-Persona thank you mate!
I was raised and still live in the shadow of mount weather and
If you would run into a local who works there and ask where they worked they just say on the mountain.
Any country can most definitely function without “top level politicians”
That Manscaped ad was almost the end for me.