Posted on 01/18/2014 6:16:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
With NASA reporting a “potentially hazardous” asteroid nearly half-a-mile wide possibly heading toward earth, and some upstate New Yorkers claiming they experienced a loud boom and a bright light in the sky last night caused by a meteor, a doctors’ organization is offering some timely advice:
Just as when the American populace first prepared for the possibility of a nuclear blast, a person’s best option for surviving a meteor strike is the same “duck and cover” created during the 1940s and ’50s when nuclear weaponry was still in its infancy.
The warning comes from Physicians for Civil Defense, which issued a statement recently during a meeting of the Emergency Management Agency of Utah.
“All Americans, starting with first responders and emergency managers, need to know this basic life-saving principle: ‘Drop and cover if you see a sudden very bright light,’” said the statement from the organization’s spokeswoman, Jane Orient, M.D.
“Such a light will be followed by a deadly shock wave within seconds. Those who drop and cover will probably survive. Those who do not are likely to be killed or suffer severe injury.”
The organization’s goal is to save lives of first responders in the event of disasters, “especially terrorist attacks using dirty bombs or nuclear weapons.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
LOL
“A quick check of the NASA link reveals that the asteroid will be approaching Earth in about 100 years.”
Oh great. Can you imagine the hysteria that can build in 100 years?
/spits out cyanide pill
:)
No point in putting it off.
I’m going lootin.
So typically WND.
I'll be around. I'll have an important job in the agriculture department, fertilizer division.
If we are lucky, it will hit DC.
When you see the flash, place head between knees and kiss your butt goodbye.
And don’t forget to wear a hard hat.
No offense to Conservative NYer’s, but really, would it be so bad if an old meteor wiped that hellhole off the face of the earth?
Of course, that’d be the opportunity Obammer would instill martial law....
I leave you to consider the question with the aid of the Earth Impact Effects Program from Imperial College, London and Purdue University. I think you'll find that duck and cover would be helpful in a variety of circumstances involving a half-mile wide asteroid.
You forgot #getcovered
;-)
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not above ground .....
> The government KNOWS the Arachnids launched a a meteor and it’s headed to Buenos Aires.
Hopefully Doogey Howser will be on hand to assist...: )
#getDuck&Covered
When you get dead (as my kids when they were little used to call it), it won’t be funny!
Self hatred. Not a good basis for moving forward.
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