Talk:The Fallout Shelter/@comment-25052433-20150619231853

Cool story, but there are a few errors here that a bit of research would have helped with.

Being from New Orleans myself, I can tell you that basements pretty much don't exist here. Some of the office buildings downtown have them, and there have been underground shelters discovered, there is one at City Park for example, but as for regular homes, they pretty much don't exist.

Not to mention, had a cellar been constructed in a home several decades old, your character wouldn't have found just a shelter, but rather a mess of mud slicked floors, as there have been several floods over the last 30 years alone that would have destroyed most anything left down there.

Now, if you were to use the existence of the basement itself as a mystery point, that could actually improve the story, as finding a basement in a New Orleans home would be a huge find in and of itself. Since your wrote that your character was originally from there, he should have expressed initial shock at seeing on in the first place.

Just a few notes, as New Orleans is one of the very few things I can actually call myself a subject matter expert on, lol. Otherwise, good story!