Mount weather is a self contained community, here are some of it's details.
In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article entitled The Mysterious Mountain.
Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows:
"Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility.
Above ground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems.
An on-site sewage-treatment plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than
a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies.
Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter pad. The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level."
The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs, 10 foot-high chain link fences, razor wire, and armed guards.
Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is tight.
The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a National Weather
Bureau Facility.
In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of Mines took control and started digging.
Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the earth, Mount Weather was
equipped with such amenities as:
--private apartments and dormitories
--streets and sidewalks
--cafeterias and hospitals
--a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings
--a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs
--its own mass transit system
--a TV communication system
Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The facility is the operational center--the hub--of approximately 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.
Together this network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of America's "Continuity of Government" program. In the event of nuclear
war, declaration of martial law, or other national emergency, the President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive Branch would be "relocated"
to Mount Weather.
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