[kellynla]

Marine Bump. Kind of reminds me of those days in the fifties where the kids were supposed to get under their desks at school...Hellooooooooo

[Tijeras_Slim]

Should'a used more duct tape!

[Kozak]

No offence but I keep that stuff in the house all the time. Started doing it after a local disaster drill by my EMS service. Simulated chlorine leak form a train car. Based on winds and location my house ( less then 2 miles from the tracks) was smack dab in the "Red" zone. That means dead. No evacuation, no nothing, just dead. So sheltering in place for a couple of hours doesn't strike me as a ridiculous alternative. Anyone who lives within a couple of miles of train tracks, or an industrial park, or a big public swimming pool or water treatment plant etc etc, get my message?

[Kozak]

No offence but I keep that stuff in the house all the time. Started doing it after a local disaster drill by my EMS service. Simulated chlorine leak form a train car. Based on winds and location my house ( less then 2 miles from the tracks) was smack dab in the "Red" zone. That means dead. No evacuation, no nothing, just dead. So sheltering in place for a couple of hours doesn't strike me as a ridiculous alternative. Anyone who lives within a couple of miles of train tracks, or an industrial park, or a big public swimming pool or water treatment plant etc etc, get my message?

[Ciexyz]

Remember the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the schools had disaster drills? In my area, they told the schools in Pittsburgh to send the kids walking towards Philadelphia. The kids in Philly were told to walk towards Pittsburgh, hehehe.

[rustbucket]

Kind of reminds me of those days in the fifties where the kids were supposed to get under their desks at school.

I remember doing that. Made sense to me. Of course, I had been less than a mile from a one-kiloton explosion that blew my window, blinds, glass and all across the room into the opposite wall. The house didn't collapse, but I could have been badly hurt by the flying glass. As it was, I was just out of the path of the glass.

I'll take whatever edge I can get, whether it be temporary shelter under a desk or plastic sheeting over a blown out window.

In hurricane country, it's not a bad idea to have the sheeting and duct tape anyway. Batteries and portable radio too. Last big hurricane here we were without power for seven days.