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I, like you, probably do not have a sufficient shelter in my basement. I am not worried about the blast since I am about 20 miles from DC...the fallout is what I am concerned about since we are down wind. I have heard that at 20 miles windows may shatter (1megaton nuke) but the fallout will come (at 15 miles I believe) to us in an hour...so I have an hour of time to get where I need to go. But a concern that I have is about EMP that will kill car circuits and computers, etc... and if my car starts up, I may be stranded on the highway with everyone else that is trying to get out of DC. I was interested in buying a radio scanner to be able to get better info from fire and HAM radio and police, but again the EMP may kill my scanner. How may have CBs or HAM radios that could help guide people out of possible problem spots? Can freeper start a radio network in case if something like this happens?

I was actually thinking of buying:

- HAM radio (understand this requires some training and a test)
- RAD detector (about $250)
- Building a Safe Room out of concrete block
- NBC filter (AmericanSafeRoom.com)

I already have nearly a year's worth of food and plenty of water and first-aid. As well as a back-pack ready to fill with stuff if I need to hightail it out of here.

Some may think I'm nuts, but I'm sure there are many among those of us here who are well-read on the subject who are probably planning similar investments.

At least these things would make me feel safer. I have no allusions as to the local, state or federal gov't helping us when all heck breaks loose. And I am not sure I want to be with all of the other people trying to get out of Dodge when the stuff hits the fan. That just sounds like a quicker way to die to me.