Mount Weather (1983: Doomsday)

Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center was a civilian command facility and the center of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. It functioned as a main relocation site for the highest level civilian and military officials.

Access to Mount Weather was via the Blue Ridge Mountain Road, or Route 601, in Bluemont, Virginia.

The underground facility within Mount Weather, designated "Area B", was completed in 1959. FEMA established training facilities on the mountain's surface in 1979. A net control station for the FEMA National Radio System, or FNARS, which was a high-frequency radio system that connected most federal public safety agencies and the U.S. military with most of the states, was located there. FNARS also provided presidential access to the Emergency Alert System, or EAS.

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