It sure would be a "BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD" if he was!
Mr. [R]ogers
Not finding Carona, but Lucerne (which is coincidentally a Cheese brand)
The Swiss city of Lucerne was once home to the biggest civilian bunker in the world.
Built to shelter 20,000 people in the case of a nuclear attack and as part of Swiss policy to provide bunkers for all, itâs still primed for possible catastrophe.
Tucked in among blocks of flats, an unassuming door set in a wall of concrete peeks out from beneath a grassy mound next to a childrenâs playground. Behind this door stands 40 years of history, and a buried seven-storey building.
Zora Schelbert, my guide inside the bunker, pushes open the heavy door, and it slams behind us. Itâs cold, and a long grey tunnel opens up in front, slowly sloping downwards.
It was the largest civilian shelter in the world at the time â opened in 1976 it was designed to keep 20,000 people safe in case of an atomic bomb.
Switzerland has had a unique âshelters for allâ policy since 1963, at the height of the Cold War. Every person in the country must have a spot in a bunker in case of some kind of catastrophe. Bunkers either have to be built underneath homes and blocks of flats, or the building owner has to pay the local authorities for a spot in a public shelter, like Sonnenberg.
The two Sonnenberg motorway tunnels (part of the A2) were built to be dual-purpose: one day theyâd see traffic flowing through them, the next they could be shut off and then kitted out as emergency shelter for tens of thousands of people. Built around the tunnels was a seven-storey building, called âthe cavernâ. This would have been the logistical and technical command unit.
The âErdgeschossâ (ground floor) in this diagram refers to the level in the bunker where the motorway tunnels run through. Actual ground is above the â4. Geschossâ (fourth floor).
âThe bunker had three diesel generators to provide people with electricity, that was in the East wing [on the left],â explains Schelbert.
âThe West wing is where 700 staff members would have worked â the security station for trouble makers from the tunnel and prison cells, an emergency hospital, kitchen, laundry, operations centre.â
In 2006 the bunker was downsized, but still exists as a civilian bunker to give shelter to 2,000 people, instead of the original number of 20,000.
Read moar here https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/in-case-of-emergency_the-forgotten-underground-world-of-swiss-bunkers/42395820