Posted on 09/28/2017 6:57:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If a nuclear bomb ... were aimed at Southern California, it might be targeted at the densest population pocket Los Angeles, Levin said. Nearly all of the people living within nine blocks of the explosion would likely die in the blast.
If the bomb were bigger, as is likely in a North Korea scenario, more would die.
In Ventura County, people might have a narrow window of time, maybe 10 minutes, to find a building for shelter before the risk of fallout became deadly. They should retreat into the nearest biggest building and stay there, Levin said.
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Basements are best but are nearly nonexistent in Ventura County. Instead, people should go to the center of a building as far from outdoors as possible.
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Radiation levels would likely decrease every seven hours all the way to 10 percent of the previous level, Levin said. If a bomb the size of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima weapons were used, people might be able to leave shelters in two to four days.
...They should keep up with disaster news through TVs, cellphones and battery- or crank-powered radios.
The county response plan offers exhausting detail. Wash hair with shampoo only because conditioner may cause radiation to bind into hair. People should bring pets to a shelter and should dust or wash them free of any radioactive particles while wearing a face mask.
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Levin challenged the premise that if there were an attack, preparedness wouldn't matter because everyone would be dead.
"The original death toll comes from the blast itself, the explosion, but after that the deaths are associated with fallout," he said. "And we could take a great percentage of those out of the question if people would just 'get inside, stay inside and stay tuned.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at vcstar.com ...
Hey, you calling me a desuka????
So, desu!
Venturans live in a non-stop daydream. It’s like the town of Stepford — or maybe that they are all on tranquilizers.
I’m not saying Venturans are as dumb as a box of rocks, but...
(Ventura FReepers excluded, of course)
Anyway, check out the peppy song that starts at the 60 second mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NId2BHU6_b0
A Soviet era magazine called Krokodil fielded the same question.
Q: What should we do in case of a nuclear attack?
A: Wrap yourself in a shroud, and walk slowly to the cemetery.
Q: Why slowly?
A: To avoid a panic.
Um... Mark, dude... EMPs kill electronics.
We lived near the largest reserve of helium in the world, placing our town #10 on the Soviet targeting list. Climbing under the desk was laughable.
LOL! Unreal!
These folks are idiots. I wonder how much that cost taxpayers.
Hasn’t North Korea already said they would go for an EMP attack? In which case the most important thing for folks in California to have is water... lots and lots of water.
My daughter and grandkids live there.
My daughter and grandkids live there. My grandson is getting an education on being a good little Marxist at school, but hey, they’ve got the beach.
It also never snows, and any and every kind of plant that you plant there will grow and thrive.
Yes, if you’re going to live in SoCal it’s ok there. I’m originally from NorCal so I like it better up there. I live in Texas now, so I enjoy visiting my daughter in Ventura for awhile to escape the 100+° summer here.
Yes, it involves doing an old yoga pose (very quickly), called "BOKYAG" (Bend Over, Kiss Your...), as shown here:
Or, alternatively, you can instantaneously do a revision of the old "Stop, Drop, and Roll" routine, known as "Flash!, Glow!, and Poof! (disappear)".
I was on a Marine Corps airbase in the south east, it gave the duck and cover drills an extra sense of urgency during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
I was at the Norfolk NOB. I don’t recall any drills, but it seemed like every ship was out of its berth, even ones who’d been there so long they were moored on coffee grounds.
We normally had a Marine guard at the entrance to the Commsta, but during the crisis we had Marines inside the station, too.
We handled the classified traffic between JCS and the picket commander, so knew what was going down in real time. It was exciting.
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