21. A television broadcast room, two levels of subbasements and a bomb shelter were added to the house. 22. After years of living in the shadow of their bomb shelters, residents of Shlomi and other communities along the hilly frontier enjoyed a newfound sense of normalcy. 23. Buildings in towns along the river remain heavily fortified with logs, lumber and bricks, and bomb shelters are still visible. 24. But growing up in an America of bomb shelters and duck-and-cover drills, I found Godzilla comforting. 25. But serious casualties were avoided, because residents had been ordered to bomb shelters overnight in anticipation of an attack. 26. But that may change as echoes of bomb shelters start to reverberate and as Washington scans the horizon to better judge the danger in the years and decades ahead. 27. Come out of your bomb shelter and break out the bubbly. 28. Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer toured the holes left by the mortars in Sederot Tuesday as residents cleaned out bomb shelters they had not used for decades. 29. During the Cold War, they often served as bomb shelters. 30. During the Gulf War, when Iraq sent Scud missiles slamming into Israel, the Jews and Arabs used to dive into the bomb shelter together. |