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    Serra Mesa Mid-Century Bomb Shelter

    Serra Mesa mid-century bomb shelters aren’t something we see or hear about every day. You’ve got to read this!

    If Serra Mesa resident Amy Holles ever gets married again, she has the perfect room for her future mother-in-law.

    Holles’s home came equipped with a 1950s-era bomb shelter dug underneath the driveway.  The shelter is accessed through a wooden hatch door in the garage. A steep wooden staircase leads shelter seekers into a pocket of stale air walled by concrete. Beyond a power outlet, a retractable dining table, and flat turquoise paint, the shelter doesn’t provide much luxury. What it can provide, presumably – its efficacy has never been tested – is protection from nuclear holocaust.

    Serra Mesa Bomb Shelter
    Surprise in garage after she inherited house from family member.

     

    While the issues of safety from air raids and boarding for her future in-laws are solved, Holles is worried about a more immediate issue: the cracking in her driveway.

    Now It’s Time For An Engineer

    There are several apparently severe cracks in the concrete. Holles says it seems like there are more cracks now than there were a year ago when she inherited the lot from her aunt. She thinks her driveway is about to give out, but doesn’t know for sure.

    “Who do you call?” she asked. “You can’t look up bomb shelter inspectors.”

    For now, Holles says she’ll embrace the shelter. The city of San Diego recommended she call a structural engineer to assess its stability. The city also said it can’t force her to do anything because the shelter is legal and it’s on private property.

    When you need a structural engineer, give me a call. I always have 2-3 names of engineers I refer to my clients. In San Diego we have moist clay and Mission Valley sand both of which shift. Shifting causes sink holes, like the one in Serra Mesa earlier in 2019 off the 805 Murray Ridge off ramp as well as cracks in foundations and pieces of backyards falling into canyons. Though, these kinds of things aren’t known to happen on the mesa in Serra Mesa they do randomly occur in and around the city of San Diego.

    By Rafael Avitabile and Joe Little

    Posted in: Serra Mesa news Tagged: Gloria Roma Serra Mesa real estate agent, moving kids serra mesa, san diego community, Serra Mesa, Serra mesa Military housing

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