Amid growing angst about climate change and terrorism, backyard pre-fabricated “panic rooms” are all the rage in Germany this summer. The shelters can withstand attacks, as well as the increasingly violent weather.
Call it a storm or fall-out shelter, or just an old-fashioned German air-raid bunker. But the government-approved Gartenschutzraum or backyard shelter is just the thing for suburbanites who are tired of Japanese fishponds and garden gnomes. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2648556,00.html
