Some good info here. Basically shelter in place (see diagram). Radiation won't be nearly as bad if it's an aerial detonation. Don't waste money on potassium iodide pills.
http://www.sciencealert.com/pills-dr...ival-gear-2018
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Some good info here. Basically shelter in place (see diagram). Radiation won't be nearly as bad if it's an aerial detonation. Don't waste money on potassium iodide pills.
http://www.sciencealert.com/pills-dr...ival-gear-2018
Everyone is also forgetting that the risk in fallout is in long-term exposure. The immediate blast effects will be mitigated by the landscape -- in Hawaii, there are a lot of "mountains" and ridgelines to block the immediate blast. Trade winds will generally blow dust from a Pearl Harbor/Hickam impact out to sea (but a Kaneohe impact will be blown into the mountains and eventually over them into Honolulu proper).
A sewer might provide some shelter from fallout but I'd be worried about its ability to take the shockwave -- really wouldn't want it collapsing on me. I told my sister that if they get a real one, she's probably got about 10 minutes to head up into one of the valleys to get some protection from the blast and shockwave and she can worry about fallout after that. There are tunnels in Diamond Head Crater that were built to withstand bombing and artillery during WW II --- not nuke rated but then again, we're talking about the DPRK, chances are that it's going to fail anyway.
First things first, get somewhere that can protect you from the blast and shockwave before you worry about the fallout.
I assumed a blast radius (or closer) scenario. Putting your kid in the sewer like it's baby Moses on the Nile isn't going to save the kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
I like that link, played with it before, but always wondered about the yield scenarios. One has to assume we know what NK has/doesn't have.
My luck I’d be working when I found out Denver was going to be hit. I suppose my best bet would be to get in our tornado shelter and hope for the best. Beyond that I wouldn’t really know what to do so I’d just have to wing it. Getting in touch with my loved ones would probably be impossible so I’d just have to hope we could all meet up back at the house when it seems safe to do so.
I guess I'm like the guy that sent the text to his son saying everyone cleared out of the breakfast buffet when they got the message...so he went back for seconds.
China or Russia wants to launch a few...yeah, I'd worry. NK? Not so much. As a matter of fact, I'd turn on the TV. Because I wanna see what retaliation on that "shithole" country would look like.
The truth is, the things that our own government will do to us if we ever get a nuke slung at us by the Norks are going to be significantly worse than the nuke itself (well for everyone except those at ground zero).
It will be the suspension of our constitutional rights, civil liberties and property rights for some time to come. The ensuing martial law could trigger a collapse of the civil society and possible war (as divided as we are now, I don't expect well see a 9/11 style of coming together).
Although to be fair, watching how the Hawaiians reacted to what they believed for more than half an hour was incoming mass death gives me hope. Send that same text message out to the general Los Angeles area and I bet you have riots, looting and unrest for a week.
I'm a bit disturbed at how lightly everyone takes North Korea. It's never a good idea to under estimate an opponent.
It's not taking NK lightly. It's having a tremendous faith in our military's capability to handle the NK threat. Big difference.
I don't mean to point at you spefically, especially since most of us here are just internet chlubs and it doesn't matter what we think, I just hope the military and government isn't taking any chances.