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(Salt Lake Tribune) --
The way things were going, Bob Foster figured the end was near and there was no safer place to be than inside a rock in southern Utah.That was 1979.
Nearly 30 years later, Foster still lives in a mammoth sandstone slab south of Moab, an astonishing creation he calls Rockland Ranch.
Through the years, Foster has carved eight homes and a "charity house" into the rock, creating comfortable and even luxurious dwellings.
When he started it all, Foster was a younger, stronger man - one driven by apocalyptic fears and his fundamentalist Mormon faith to find a safe haven to rear his polygamous family.
"It was crystal clear this is the place," Foster said. "I knew I was to cut holes in rocks for a refuge center."
Foster signed a 50-year lease for the property, located on state school trust land, and began blasting home-sized holes in the sandstone.
There are 22 years left on the lease, which runs about $6,400 per year, but Foster doesn't expect the government to last that long.
So his work continues.
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