CME Expedition 7

Locations: Porsgrunn, Norway.
Members: 001, 002, 003.
Types: Shelters.
Status: Unknown, Active, Abandoned.

We headed out one sunny day to check out three of Porsgrunn's shelters. There are others, but these have yet to be explored. The first one we actually just stumbled upon. I was waiting for a green light while pointing out the window towards a steep, rocky surface in the middle of town, saying something like "that's the sort of place you'd expect to find a shelter", and lo and behold.. 002 replies "I'll be damned!" There actually was one right there, so obviously we turned the car around and found a place to park. As is usual, this was locked, but there are as mentioned before usually at least one other way in to a place like this. I happened to come across a document concerning regulations when building shelters. The document dating back to 1948 described how a shelter needed to be constructed with one emergency exit for each 100 people it was designed to provide shelter for. So I think we'll be back to this one to have a closer look at the surroundings. One last interesting thing about this place are the hooks, located just above the doors. We haven't encountered these at any of the other shelters we have been to.  

Main Entrance

Hooks

 

Intakes

 

Next up was the command central for civil defence operations in our part of Norway. We were expecting to meet guys at work there, possibly being questioned about what we were doing, snooping around like this. But this late in the evening it was all quiet, they might have been watching us from behind a camera, who knows, but the only ones we ran into were a couple of girls riding around on their bikes. So unless these eight year old girls were undercover, we seemed to have the place to ourselves.

002 & 003 Exploring

Drive In Entrance

Walk In Entrance

Doorway

Pipes Above Drive In Entrance

Last up for the day was a shelter I had driven past countless times, but had sort of just forgotten about. It was about time we took a closer look. 002 & 003 were both eager. By the time I had parked the car, they were already halfway out of their seats and looking for action. I followed close behind, trying to document..

002

Gates & Entrance

Intakes

The Lock Makes Me Suspect This Has Been Closed For A Long Time

 -Caveman 001-