User blog comment:Tessitore/An underground city in 1983:Doomsday/@comment-2239213-20100812220645

I'm still working that sort of thing out. The bunker was designed to house four thousand people but looking at the maps of the place you could probably fit well over double that down there if the office space and unused areas were converted to accomendation, maybe even more. Of course that raises the issue of supplies, which would obviously run out a lot faster with a larger population. There are also a lot of other underground quarries in the area, some converted to other uses like Burlington was, some not, so it would be entirely possible for most of the local population to take cover underground one way or another, like people did in Cleveland. So, maybe eight thousand or so in Burlington itself, with maybe another twelve thousand or more in other tunnels. That's just a very rough estimate though. Things have been complicted a fair bit by the fact that there's a major city less then ten miles away which isn't on the nuked list, namely Bath, so I'll have to include that somehow, although I don't know how yet. It's proximity to Burlington has pretty much killed all my inital ideas though. *sigh*