Looks like the cemetery I used to take my grandfather for a walk in his old days so he would get familiar with the surroundings. Seems like a nice idea for a very long week-end after the missiles rain down.
As most others here have opined I have nowhere to go.
I would likely just indulge myself in whatever earthly pleasures I have available and wait for the end.
All the people who’ve posted saying “I have zero chance because I live near ###” have a pretty good idea where ground zero is. As for abandoning one’s home, I presume that in the ordinary course of things one can go out of town for a few days and return to an intact home. If one’s home ended up vaporized it would be a moot point.
Again for the umpteenth time, if you KNOW that’s what’s going to happen in an emergency, at what point do you conclude that leaving early to be on the safe side is a good idea?
As a survivor of Minot AFB, I am proud to wax nostalgic with, “Only the Best Come North. . . and live”
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“Why not Minot? 'Cause freezin’s the reason.”
The Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, and other adversaries have near-real time data on our static (non-moving) targets, and damn good intel on our moving assets too. Between watching our social media, flying ‘weather balloons’ over our nation, using orbital assets for photovisual surveying, or eyes-on from “tourists,” they know exactly what to hit, when, and how.
This has been going on since prior to World War I. Only the weapons and tactics have changed.
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You think Putin’s not watching our Carrier Battle Groups leaving Norfolk?
The Titan II silos were demolished in 1986. There is an airbase in Jacksonville which I imagine is a target. I’m more worried about living close to that (in nuclear weapon terms) than when, like Beck, I lived out in the woods.
If the alarm went off and I found out a thermonuclear missile was coming my way, I’d run and dive under my desk, then duck and cover like a pro. However, I would not run with scissors—someone could get hurt that way.
Damn, you’ve become quite useful.
I like your advice.
Kinda nice, sharp tongued, clever. Funny and smart.
Here’s your chance to write a thin pamphlet.
Make alittle scratch for the future.
I think so too.
It helps to have had actual experience…and a person on the very inside for the first ten years ready to give a shout-out when the shit hits the fan.
Where am I going to go? I’m in the middle of Europe and I already have my iodine tablets. Bunker’s in the basement. I’m staying here. At least some of my neighbors have said that they wouldn’t go in the bunker because they would prefer to go fast and not suffer afterwards.
Family members in the US will stay put for the same reasons as my neighbors. Rather die quick than suffer afterwards.
And again, because you seem to not want to understand, what is this early information that I am supposed to know that everyone around me doesn’t?
This questions only seems relevant to those already living in the country away from people.
I wouldn’t even believe any threat was actually legitimate until something like the President appearing on live TV saying a nuke will hit in x hours/days and then the screens going to the Emergency Broadcast signal. Anything less than that and it’s just crazy conspiracy people doing what they do. There is no “early.”
I’m in SW MT and NW and Central MT is going to get hit and hard. I’ve dirt biked past the very first ICBM silo in the Little Belt mountains. However, that’s 70 miles away as the crow flies and the prevailing winds tend to be southwesterly. So we might survive, and we have solar power, running water, and lots of ruminants traversing the property. We probably wouldn’t survive all that long once the winter sets in and supply chains shut down. And we run out of ammunition.
I don’t see the Russians or Chinese targeting the greater Tel Aviv area. Why waste a missile? If a nuclear war breaks out between the superpowers, I’ll hunker down in my building’s bomb shelter and wait to see what happens.
The Iranians, though… if they get their hands on nukes, and successfully shoot them at Israel, I’m dead. No question about it. It’s a small country, and there’s nowhere to run. So I’ll probably stay home - but not because I plan to die. Hopefully, not that many missiles will be launched, and missiles can be intercepted, or can fail, or nukes can fizzle. I’ll probably be killed, but maybe I won’t. So I’ll stand my ground, curse at the sky and dare them to kill me. What do I have to lose?
In your case it sounds like you’re better prepared than 99% of the population of the USA. You’re at the location most Americans would want to flee to.
The same news reports that everyone around you hears too. The only question is whether you’d be significantly more paranoid cautious than the majority.
Okay, question answered. You wouldn’t act unless you were sure, by which time it would be too late.
My BFF’s son did an internship in Minot, ND a couple years ago. He was a bit weirded out when he found this out, but I reminded them that they had previously lived in Wichita, which was (and probably still is) a prime target.
Here’s a book about the bunkers designed for Congress and other DC-area VIPs. TL : DR - many of them have said over the years that they wouldn’t want to go there unless they could bring their families with them.
Sorry to hear you got caught in eclipse traffic. But you raise a good point.
I have a place to go that might be remote enough to escape the initial exchange, but it’s a 7 hour drive on a good day that doesn’t involve nuclear warfare. In fact, I just got back from spending a week there.
I’m outside Chicago. High probability of either instant death or dying horribly within weeks. If the emergency alert thing went off I’d probably try to hunker down and hope for favorable winds. After a week or two bunkering in, when the radiation threat is lessened, then I might attempt the trek to my haven.
There really isn’t a good answer for me, given my resources, my job, and where I live.
I would have to have sufficient assurance that nuclear exchange/end of the world is going to happen within 48 hours to abandon my life and head out, but not sufficiently widespread knowledge that everyone else would know that far ahead. On eclipse day I didn’t get caught in the traffic jam because I am more than willing to take back roads and avoid freeways, but I wasn’t the only one. Fleeing “certain” death many more people would be willing to take the back roads.
Quite likely, but even if only 1 in 100 of their missiles worked/got through that’s still 50-60 nuclear bombs, any one of which can really ruin your day.