I missed the fun of the nuclear duck and cover drills, but we got a steady dose of tornado duck and covers growing up in Green Bay, WI.
Still seems odd looking back, but not as odd as worrying about protecting yourself from falling debris from nukes.
We had a few duck and cover drills here in GA in the 80s. Tornadoes aren’t particularly common but every 25 or 30 years we seem to get one moderately sized one, and perhaps half that time for a small one.
The fortunate thing about being out in the boonies is that 90% of the time when we do have them, there isn’t a lot of damage to actual human built things. A house or two, maybe a fence or barn, a couple cars and the rest of it is just smashed or uprooted pine trees.
These drills are absolute idiocy tho...sooner or later they’ll find some kid who figures it’s better to die trying and end up with a teacher with a pen driven into their back or eye, or smashed nose and teeth from a heavy book being slammed into their face.