While traditional real estate sales are slumping, end times mean boom times for other sectors of the market. Is it any surprise that new home sales hit record lows in February? Who wants to lock himself into a 30-year mortgage when the Mayan apocalypse is just around the corner? The Soviet Union is gone, but in its place we've got leaky reactors, kooky dictators, Islamic dead-enders, shaky tectonic plates, solar tsunamis, the shrinking thermosphere, pole shifts, and whatever's causing thousands of dead birds to drop from the skies en masse.

So on August 16, after 42 days underground, the followers of the Full Gospel Assembly Church resurfaced, alive and presumably well-fed, to find the world pretty much as they'd left it.įifty years later, Armageddon still threatens to drift in on any breeze. There they waited patiently for the Soviets to destroy America with a hailstorm of atom bombs.Īlthough the Lord had tipped them that an attack was imminent, a day passed, and then a week passed, and then a month passed apparently the godless Russians were too busy celebrating their recent mastery of human space flight to fulfill divine prophecy. In the summer of 1961, 100 pessimistic members of an Arizona-based religious sect called the Full Gospel Assembly Church spent about $250,000 (in current dollars) on food, locked up their homes, and descended into a half dozen nearby bomb shelters that they had recently constructed.

Walt builds a family fallout shelter