Mount Weather (The Era of Relative Peace)

Mount Weather, formally known as the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MEOC), serves as the center of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It is located by State Route 101 in between the Loudoun-Clarke counties near Bluemont, Virginia. The facility is 45 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.

Mount Weather serves as a major relocation site for the highest level of civilian and military officials in case of national disaster, playing a major role in continuity of government (per the U.S. Continuity of Operations Plan). It is also known by the call-sign High Point Special Facility. Mount Weather is the location of a control station for the FEMA National Radio System (FNARS), a high frequency radio system connecting most federal public safety agencies and the U.S. military with most of the states. It allows the current U.S. President to access the Emergency Broadcast System and the current Emergency Alert System.

The site was brought into the public eye by The Washington Post, when the government facility was mentioned while reporting on the December 1, 1974, crash into Mount Weather of TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727 jetliner.

The beginning stages of World War III saw the preparation of Mount Weather to accept President George H.W. Bush and some cabinet members. In 2014, Bush would later recall how he was transferred from the PEOC beneath the White House to Camp David and to Mount Weather on various occasions, coinciding with the Soviet invasion of Alaska and Washington State.

During the September 11th attacks across the United States, some members of Congress were evacuated to Mount Weather.