It takes about two weeks to excavate the land and bury the average bunker, Lynch said. It’s all done secretly so local residents aren’t aware. Once installed, passersby would have no way of knowing it’s there.
“There’s no clue left behind, not even a door,” Lynch said.
So the sight of an American billionaire wandering the sheep meadows consulting his GPS and kicking at the dirt can only mean one thing: It must be New Zealand.
Super-rich Americans have fled to New Zealand to hide out in their luxury bunkers throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Quick-thinking Silicon Valley billionaires booked flights for New Zealand as soon as the COVID-19 crisis began to escalate.
A number of executives managed to escape shortly before the country closed its borders to almost all travellers on March 16.
Just weeks ago, doomsday bunker manufacturer, Rising S Co, got a desperate call from an executive based in New York - the epicentre of the outbreak in the US - asking how to open the secret door to his shelter.
His bunker, 11 feet underground in New Zealand, has never been used.
'He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra water or air filters,' Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based company told Bloomberg.
'He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that's happening.
For context ... billionaires have been preparing to escape to their bunkers in NZ for years now...
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/
There are still air vents. A campfire next to one for a day will smoke them out.
Don't want them out. Seal them in.
Actually some of them have already escaped to NZ:
This article also has more details:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6137157/Why-doomsday-prepper-billionaires-building-huge-underground-survival-bunkers-New-Zealand.html