Posted on 10/23/2015 6:49:35 AM PDT by NYer
We’ve got provisions and lots of beer.
The key word is Survival on the New Frontier.
In the days before expiration dates were put on food. Also today you’d be accused of hoarding if you prepare for emergencies. I wonder how many people are prepared to survive for a week or two?
Buy lots of seltzer water soda cans. I can't find pure water in cans except online these days. Also Jello is a good survival food. You can mix with water and drink it that way.
SPAM? Well...that’s more than we have now. Our gov’t demi-gods all have shelters they can run to...the rest of us? SOL.
I’d rather fry in the initial blast...like that old poster says “then kiss your ass goodbye”. Works for me.
I used to have a copy of that book, THE FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTER.
Me too.
With the Iran “nuclear deal” it is probably time to dust off duck and cover. And with Hillary!’s New New Frontier on the horizon we can bring back fallout shelters as well!
I had occasion to work for a week at a Swiss affiliate a few years back.
Small factory in an obscure valley.
They had a fully stocked BLAST shelter, not merely a fallout shelter, in their basement.
It could survive a Hiroshima sized event 300 m from ground zero.
Obscure valley, scarcely a prime target.
Unless they allow themselves to be overrun by “refugees” the Swiss will survive us all.
How times change. Anyone with a bunker now days is considered a kook.
Spam is an acronym for “Spoiled and Putrefied Animal Meat.
At home I call baloney “floor sweeps”, because I read a few years back that’s exactly what a meat packer used. Whatever fell on the floor. Other reject such as eyeballs, tongue, and other unmentionables too good to throw away were used by others.
A related short story by Philip K. Dick.
I don’t know what color of acid he was dropping, but this tab hit the spot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster,_You%27re_Dead!
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle Civil Defense Film
Didn't do any of that in school because it was a little late for it (1970s) and if you stood on the roof of my school you could see the B-52s sitting on alert about a mile away. Not much chance a desk could stop that fireball.
I remember ads on TV for fall out shelters during the Cuban missile crisis. Interesting times.
I don’t see any guns.
I grew up about ten miles from Westover AFB, which at the time was a SAC Base with B52s.
When I got to fifth grade I finally had a teacher who explained the truth about our chances of surviving a nuclear attack. Her husband was a BUFF pilot.
She told us that there were probably at least three or four bombs targeted on our city, which also housed the Springfield Armory.
We did not do many duck and cover drills after that.
No guns or ammo in those pictures.
Beer is a diuretic though. If water is short, it is a very bad idea. The net gain in calories and carbs will do you no good if you are dying of dehydration.
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