72,000 square feet / Private home?!?

[creeky]

Okay bumped into this through Drudge.

Basics...

1. 72,000 sq. ft. home.

2. 23,000 sq. ft. Basement

3. 15 bedrooms; 14 bathrooms; a two-story, 1,600-square-foot library and two-story, 1,970-square-foot great hall. The master bedroom is 1,275 square feet.

4. All Walls Concrete.

5. Rumored Windows are to be Bullet Proof Glass.

6. Located close to Highlandville Mo. (Close to Branson and Two Airports)

7. Owner (Steven T. Huff Family, LLC) is Chief Technology Officer of Overwatch Systems, Ltd... a company that “delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. ... More than 25,000 analysts in the U.S. Department of Defense and the larger intelligence community."

Now then... maybe it's just late and I am a little tired and not thinking straight. But does this sound a little strange to anyone else? Kind of like a super expensive, bug out location?

With his involvement with the DOD... does he know something everyone else does not?!?

Click Here for article.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

With a house like that one could go for years without cleaning up. When one room gets too untidy, just move to another room!

[Guest Republican]

With his involvement with the DOD... does he know something everyone else does not?!?

Click Here for article.

Ahh, he is probably just like us only rich enough to have and do what we cant. If I were ultra wealthy I would do something similar only I wouldnt need near that much square footage. I always heard money makes you paranoid.

[Guest clownsdd]

Your tax $$$$ at work

[DWARREN123]

Probably used as a show place/meeting place for potential customers

[creeky]

Probably used as a show place/meeting place for potential customers

That is kind of what o was thinking. It will have access to four small airports that are close. But then I started thinking

about if you were going to build something like that for entertaining why in the middle (more or less) of nowhere.

[DaveTN]

I doubt this home was built for entertaining business clients. They are owned by Textron.

As their name implies; Overwatch sees all. They are the eyes for “Big Brotherâ€.

This guy has apparently just cashed in on all the “Satellite, GPS, spy stuff†while he can.

Overwatch

[TGO David]

Your tax $$$$ at work

Blah blah. The guy probably has worked very hard to get to where he's at; so what if it's .gov money or .com money. It all spends the same and all comes out of our pockets.

[Guest Bronker]

I doubt this home was built for entertaining business clients. They are owned by Textron.

As their name implies; Overwatch sees all. They are the eyes for “Big Brother”.

This guy has apparently just cashed in on all the “Satellite, GPS, spy stuff” while he can.

Overwatch

Thanks a lot. I just finished 'One Second After' at 0330 this morning. I'm paranoid enough as it is.

[Links2k]

Obama made him do it.

[creeky]

Thanks a lot. I just finished 'One Second After' at 0330 this morning. I'm paranoid enough as it is.

Hahaha!! yeah... one second after and seeing this I can see why!!

[Spook]

Hahaha!! yeah... one second after and seeing this I can see why!!

Maybe in his line of work he knows alot more than we do... That kind of construction isn't for everday housing. Perhaps he's a survivalist. I just read One Second After last week, too. Great story that makes me want to plan a little more for when the SHTF. Also, saw a story on the History Channel about the New Madrid fault and what could happen if/when it rumbles again. It is wise to be prepared.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

If the fellow knows something special then maybe that something isn't too awful. If it was really bad the house would maybe be built to look like an old falling down barn from the surface, and be entirely underground. If one had a lot of goodies to steal, then one woudn't want to draw much attention in the aftermath of something really bad.

Edited January 16, 2011 by Lester Weevils

[strickj]

Seems rather odd that he would want a fortified home like that.... but have a simple wire fence and horse gate.

[creeky]

Seems rather odd that he would want a fortified home like that.... but have a simple wire fence and horse gate.

Seems to me the last thing you would build would be your final perimeter wall and security.

[Guest mosinon]

Well if I had all the money in the world and if I were worried about the end of civilization the last thing I would build would be a 72,000 foot mansion. I'd build a small house with a a bunker or something. Why make yourself a target? When society breaks down people eat the rich.

Yeah, yeah, he worked hard for it and all that but I doubt he worked as hard as that guy running a jackhammer twelve hours a day. He was certainly smarter but when the revolt comes (and it is not coming anytime soon) the gaudy will be roasted.

This is a bit like John Edwards building his mansion. With a basketball court. Great John, you made a lot of dough. But you champion the poor and the inequality in America. And while you are busy saying that there are too many poor people in America you build a huge mansion with a freakin basketball court.

Supposedly smart people are the reason I make dough in the stock market on occasion.

[DaveTN]

and if I were worried about the end of civilization

Most of us aren’t worried about that.

[Guest mikedwood]

If the fellow knows something special then maybe that something isn't too awful. If it was really bad the house would maybe be built to look like an old falling down barn from the surface, and be entirely underground. If one had a lot of goodies to steal, then one woudn't want to draw much attention in the aftermath of something really bad.

Yeah underground would seem more reasonable to me.

Maybe the article just doesn't say what's underground.

[Guest Republican]

It just occurred to me. The only thing I hate worse than someone who has done no shtf prepping at all is someone who has done more than I could ever think of, ie this guy.

I will bet that is 72,000 square feet of wall to wall toys. I mean, imagine the firearms, ammo, optics, vehicles, food stores, etc.

Or it might be empty.