Posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance
I woke up abruptly. Overzealous JROTC Cadets ran and yelled on the high school track across the street. I rolled over and grabbed my reading glasses. Time to return to the book which I’d fallen asleep reading. It’s Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile by Eugene Sheppard. Thirty minutes later, I faced a tough choice. Should I go down and check on my children? Or watch an old Lomachenko fight on Youtube? Then my wife called up, “Babe, it’s garbage day. Take out the trash!” So I rushed downstairs. My typical Saturday ritual. As I dragged the trash out a bizarre sound boomed from my phone. I read the message:
“Ballistic missile threat inbound. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”
“So it’s today,” I thought...
(Excerpt) Read more at stream.org ...
Donald Duck.
I think they are still there...
Biggest scare I had was back in 1962 just after the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the USA and the USSR to the brink of war.
Then one night the news broke in and announced unknown incoming flying object coming in over the DEW Line! Pucker factor kicked in until they showed a cheap copy of Santa Clause and his sled.
I wasn’t sure to be relieved, as it was Dec 24, or upset because of the scare.
Yeah, but he didn't blame President Trump for it, so I guess there's that.
I am kind of surprised that a lot of people didn't die in car accidents trying to evacuate. There's a highway that circles Oahu, but even that is low speed and narrow, winding along the coast. Honolulu is not a place to try to escape in a panic.
Discovered, I don’t know. But it is extracted from natural gas, which Amarillo had access to a lot and formed the Helium Reserve of the US. Being also near to Pantex, where classified work was done on nuclear arms, we lived a nuke life.
Great story. My family could have been there but they weren’t. I honestly have zero plan if such a thing comes to pass here.
My thoughts exactly. Probably checking to see how Trump reacts.
I didn’t like the answer, either. It sounds too much like a character in Catch-22 who said it is better to live on your knees than to die on your feet.
Exactly!
I think you may be right about it being a real launch & it was intercepted.
The little town had a candy making enterprise there...They twisted candy into shapes and really neat Holiday motives.,.
My grandfather took me there....the first time.
A good memory....
And I'm not Donald Duck...: )
To the author:
Were their children in Hiroshima? In Nagasaki?
Was it worth 130,000 deaths to save 7 million others?
AT Davis-Monthan there are still lots of mothballed B-52s - D through G models I think, so both conventional and nuclear, but the nuclear-rated ones are slowly being destroyed per SALT II. The last of the B-36s was scrapped in the mid-70s; my cousin and I lived on post back then and used to sneak over to the boneyard and climb into them
At the Nuka World Red Rocket. Just got back from seeing Rachel in Bradberten.
The author apparently ignored that his son didn’t answer that last question. A child would normally think his parent is more precious/important than someone else’s.
Had a driller outfit...not too far from me...here in NE OK...thinking they had found Helium...
It was a dry well....and they spent a ton of $$$.
Me neither but at least the guy packs a 9mm to protect his kids from more proximate threats. We are still paying for Truman’s vanity.
I was in the communication station in Norfolk relaying traffic from the JCS to the picket commander at the quarantine. As the Soviet freighter approached the picket, the commander asked JCS what to do. The response was, if he doesn’t stop, sink him. Chill bump time. Then the freighter stopped.
Without an air filtration system in the shelter they would die from the radioactive fall-out. They also would need 14 days worth of food and water and a chemical toilet.
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