"I suppose we can sit the worst out in our wine cellar… and then drink ourselves to death.
I think that is what Sir Richard Branson did on his private island during one of the Cat 5 hurricanes (though not to death). I imagine he does not drink plonk.
Remember “fallout shelter” signs on buildings? I though that would be so twentieth century"
My neighborhood was built in the late 1950’s and my neighbors house has a bomb shelter. You would go down in his basement and there was a 4 ft. door that went down several more steps. When I saw it i thought “this would make an excellent wine cellar”. I remember the short films about what to do in case of a nuclear attack. Somehow getting under your desk at school didn’t seem sufficient.