Posted on 01/04/2020 9:22:35 PM PST by BenLurkin
He sounds like a great guy.
I think you need to wear a condom to maximize the effects of potassium iodide...
The thinking back then was that in a single or limited nuclear attack, civilian causulties could be reduced by 80% to 90% if everyone could be put in shelters. Sure, the shelters won’t help really close to Ground Zero, but that area is relatively small and the much larger surrounding area is where people could survive.
As to whether it’s worth surviving - for a small scale attack, probably. But a full-out exchange with Russia or China, forget it...nothing to live for, in my opinion.
“Instinct to see what the heck is going on before you know it’s a nuke will be troublesome.”
Train, train, and train some more. Be aware that embarrassing oneself when camera flashes go off is part of the territory.
Looks like the lower Mississippi River thru
Louisiana is lit up; we’re screwed here!
“Make sure you have a battery operated radio in order to receive those messages”
When we lost power in Hurricane Sandy I busted this out and would turn it on every couple of hours; all it did was tell us how other people had it worse...
Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
“Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man”
A shotgun fired and away I ran
In an age of possible nuclear instability, with so many rogue and dictatorial countries
now armed with nuclear bombs and missles, are we, as a country prepared. I think NOT.
This is where "rugged individualism" and independent thought may lead to survival.
The threat has always been around us,
but even now, we are being encouraged by our FED.Govt. to prepare for life's uncertainties.
History:
From the 1950's, movies such as "the famous Duck and Cover drill with Bert the Turtle, which portrayed students saving themselves from a nuclear attack by hiding underneath their school desks. Today, these films are seen as ill-informed..." "During the early 1950s, the FCDA (Federal Civil Defense Administration) also encouraged Americans to begin building at-home nuclear fallout shelters. Each shelter was supposed to have at least two weeks of supplies, the recommended amount of time for staying in the shelter after an attack."
Current Advice/Response :
According to Dr. Redlener, “ Brooke Buddemeier at Livermore National Labs in California has done a great deal of research on this subject [nuclear preparedness and survival].(Emphasis mine)
He suggests that if a single-weapon detonation occurred in New York City,
some 200,000 or more lives could be saved, if people knew how to protect themselves.
That means knowing how and when to find adequate shelter
and to determine when it’s safe to leave the shelter.”
Our Parents and grandparents had prepping on their minds as a lifestyle
at that time , it was called " Common Sense" !!
Address those issues of your own personal concern, with intelligence, before the fact,
rather than re-active and ineffective emotion and panic .
Review many of the posts for further information and advice.
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
“Duck and Cover” is useful for the first 40 seconds after the blast. If you see the flash and run to the window to see, the blast wave will make a sparkly Claymore out of your window glass,, and shred you. If you are outside, the following wind will pick up stuff and hurl it at you.
It’s only useful if you are far enough away, naturally. And not useful much beyond a minute or so.
A good propaganda film is on Archive.org, “Our Cities Must Fight”, explaining in pure FedGov logic with cheesy music why shelter-in-place is the right thing to do, and besides, National Guard will be keeping the roads clear for emergency vehicles. Also good is “Fallout and You”!
The original printing of Dean Ing’s novel “Pulling Through” is a nuke survival tale, and in the back is a set of government-issued survival monographs on topics like making a radiation meter from an orange juice can (with calibration details), a toilet paper HEPA filter with cardboard box air pump, and other goodies. Reprints of the novel don’t always have the appendices, but they are used in the novel.
I’m getting goosebumps, people!
W should have turned muzzyland into a parking lot but turned out to be part of the “evil ones”.
Being prepared for a nuclear bomb is like being prepared for a kick in the giblets. You really can’t be.
Anyone in that shelter would last about a week before running out of food and water.
Those religious loonies in Idaho with the missing children and a scattering of dead relatives across two states say the end of the world will be in July 2020.
Good information to know thanks.
he sure was.
:)
Yeah, it’s a fun map, innit?
:D
“Hard work is happy work”
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