We’re within 30 miles of Washington, DC and Andrews AFB, and only a mile or so from the Port of Baltimore. We’d die quickly.
But that’s what I’m confused about, Ginger. According to these numbers (I still can’t get the stupid map to load - is it taking over 15 minutes for you guys? 'Cause I don’t have that kind of patience.), you’d be just fine if D.C. was hit. If the Port of Baltimore was hit, you’d be “be ravaged by fires and radiation,” but the buildings would remain undamaged.
Don’t forget they’re using a 10 kT bomb, not one of the MT ones they made movie of the week about in the 80’s. We’re dealing with Nagasaki style weapons.
Hah!
I’m safe!
Neener, neener neener!
My family and friends, however, would probably be toast.
Toasted.
My last residence included. And almost the one before that.
All I get is a blank map with a colorful bullseye in th emiddle. I, um, live in the middle of nowhere.
I’m like, this close to being toast.
My granparents live on a barrier island with one bridge. They wouldn’t be toast, but in order to leave the island, they’d have to either leave by boat, or drive through the blast zone to get to the bridge, if it still existed.
Typically, it’s the centroid - the theoretical point on which your zip code polygon would balance.
Whew! Missed my house by a good mile.
A damned shame about the new section of the parkway, though.
Exactly. This isn’t what happens if Russia or China do their damndest to take us out. This is what happens if Al Qaeda or the IRA or the SLA or PETA or the Women’s Interntional Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell or whoever gets their hands on enough fissionable uranium and makes a little fission bomb to shake us up with.
Well, based on my home and work zip codes…I’d be a goner no matter where I was.
For my home ZIP code, I’m either in the red or on the edge of the red (it doesn’t actually show my road, but one relatively close). For my work ZIP code, it’s basically right where I am.
I’m in the green. So that makes me dead. My aunt, a few miles north will be living large and laughing at our wreckage. Well, probably not laughing.
-Lil
Ravaged by radiation and fire.
Damn my wife! If she had agreed to the split-level instead of holding out for the ranch-style two blocks away, we would be safe.
I’ve always known everywhere I’ve lived was within the “red zone” of any likely nuclear blast. For fifteen years or so my folks and I have been almost in sight, in winter, of the largest basic training base in the country. I feel okay about that, honestly - I’d rather be vaporized than die of cancer.
If I am at work and they nuke my house, I’m good. Vice versa is good as well, of course. With my luck, they’ll try to take out the only decent Italian restaurant in town, and get me wherever I am! :eek:
They’re targeting Ray Brook – pick off the APA, and cover Saranac and Placid in one blast, of course!
There’s another Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator…it doesn’t do a map-overlay (which didn’t work for me, either) but you can adjust the yield to your liking.
Good news! If a full scale Tsar Bomba goes off near the nearest first strike target, I’m probably just far away enough not to be instantly burned to death! (The flames would reach me within minutes, though. But the flash would likely have been bright enough to blind me and/or give me a first degree burn.
Apparently, if one hits square in the middle of my area code, I’ll be fine. Whew.
Check out Cecil’s column on the subject.
Yeah, that’s what it did for me. The edge of the red circle was right over my neighborhood. Is it showing a nuclear blast centered in the middle of your zip code?