Cliff Sims

And the government has places around the country.

What happens inside of them still remains highly classified.

Some of the locations themselves remain classified.

But it's basically if there was a crisis scenario in which the government had to be reconstituted outside of Washington, D.C., these are the places that you would go.

And so I was taken to one of those places that was hundreds and hundreds of feet underground.

When we got there, a giant metal blast door opened in the side of a mountain.

And we kind of go inside and we're down to these tunnels that take us into basically an underground city that had everything from like a made-to-order grill where you could order hot dogs and hamburgers and pizza and stuff in there to living quarters and office space and computer space.

I saw where my computer would be in a scenario like that.

And some of it was kind of like off of the movies where you see –

you know, a room where they're monitoring a bunch of different televisions, things that are going on all over the country, kind of a watch center there, conference room space where we went in and we kind of talked through some of these different things of, you know, what happens if this, in this scenario, what happens in that scenario, just to be prepared for

what they call COG, continuity of government, C-O-G, or COOP, C-O-O-P, continuity of operations.

And so the government spends a great deal of time planning for these scenarios so that if we're ever confronted with them, we could have a competent response to them.

And in some ways, I found myself...

very surprised about the quality of preparation that we have.

And in other scenarios, I found myself terrified that were that to actually happen, things are gonna descend into chaos and we're probably not ready for those things.

So it was an eye-opening experience to say the least.

It was kind of like doomsday prepping on the highest possible level.

The one that we went to, if you had satellite imagery, you would be able to see that it's a facility.

Okay.

There's a helicopter landing pad there.