A well-stocked pantry is essential in any survival situation – but keeping an underground shelter continuously stocked with enough food to sustain 500 people is no simple task. “I don’t know how many tons of food we have had to throw out over the years.”
Bruce told the National Post in one interview. In the three decades the shelter had been on standby, even food items with long shelf lives, like canned beans and other preserved ingredients, would have had to be replaced several times over.