Like this:
But replace “Hawaii” with your location.
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If I’m at work, I go to the gym (the gym’s in a cold war bomb shelter) if I’m at home I start heading north. Put a couple of mountains between me and the city.
Nothing. Everyone is going to get the same alert and freak the fuck out, clogging all the roads, making it impossible to get to a shelter.
I have 2 choices:
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Center of my cinderblock house and hope for the best.
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Submerged in the hot tub and hope for the best.
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In that case, hot tub. False alarm? Still got a soak in the hot tub. :)
Submerged in the neighbour’s wife/daughter/pool boy/donkey (delete as appropriate)?
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Go to basement. Got enough emergency supplies to last a while.
I go outside with arms open wide, saying “it’s about time”.
Given how slow the elevator is in my building, I’d do nothing. I’d be dead before it showed up.
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Maybe they’re not able to use stairs
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Correct. I can’t use the stairs because otherwise my already flailing joke wouldn’t work at all.
Plot twist: The joke was the one needing the crutch.
Hopefully it’s a nice day so I could go outside and lay down in the grass or climb a tree to chill and completely relax.
Make sure my phone was actually on silent, put ear plugs in and go back to sleep. I’m too fucking tired to try and survive anything more.
I’ve got one hell of a cold right now. I’d welcome the sweet relief.
I would invite everyone to my bomb shelter.
Thanks Ned!
Who is Ned?
Old painty-can Ned
I do the same thing for a missile alert that I do for a tornado alert…
Film it from my front porch as it gets uncomfortably close, while my wife screams in the background for me to get back in the house.
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Write six unrelated words for homeroom.
We were in this scenario last year, when NK launched a missile towards Hokkaido, and we were on the west coast, just next to a nuclear reactor.
After getting the altert, we put on clothes, went downstairs to the sturdiest room, stuck on the TV to the NHK news, and waited. The missle plopped into the ocean off the coast, and we had tempura for lunch.
There’s really nothing you can do in these situations but stay calm and do the small, sensible things.
Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot, just turn off so only gonna be more dangerous if they specifically target electricity infrastructure
Not to make anyone nervous, but dropping a fuckass big missile on a pile of very secure and safe nuclear material will still scatter that material in a wide area, and wind will make it worse.
But no, making a modern nuclear suffer a meltdown is basically impossible
Sure, but a nuclear power plant could be a potential target. The nuclear warhead is the concern.
If someone drops a nuke I think you will have bigger problems than the lack of electricity
That’s exactly what I’m saying… If you live near a nuclear power plant, you’re a potential target. Cause the bomb doesn’t destroy the plant, it destroys the city it’s in and several towns around it.
The plant is a target because hitting the plant makes the power go out for the whole region, but your problem is the warhead. Meltdowns don’t factor in at any point.
meltdown
It’s okay to leave the space in when it’s two words.
Laughs in German
If they are built and maintained correctly. And meltdown isn’t the only problem that could occur.
I don’t have much faith in a corrupt, self-regulated industry, with strong yakuza ties, to do things 100% the correct way, especially given everything we know about the industry post 2011. Knowing how much local political power the company has, I know they could literally get away with murder, as no politician or police would want to be on their bad side.
Don’t get me wrong, the missile was still the biggest threat, but I do believe the power plant isn’t necessarily safe. An engineering and/or scientific understanding of a modern power plant doesn’t mean shit if you don’t consider the political and capitalist systems the that underpin their construction and maintenance.
Could you recommend any reading about the Yakuza involvement in the industry? Super fascinating but it’s the first I’ve heard if it
Thanks
For English sources probably the best book is Tokyo Noir by Jake Adelstein
Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot
we hope. never having tested nearby strikes, there’s no way to know how resilient to catastrophe these things are, and even when over-engineered with an eye on safety in the worst conditions, fukushima illustrates that everything can go wrong in a cascade and still render them unsafe.
honestly, coastal nuclear power stations like diablo canyon and fukushima are going to be interacting with larger and more violent storms in the future, and tsunamis etc., perhaps there are better places for them.
Not really, modern Thorium reactors simply can’t meltdown, it’s no safety, simply not possible they are the Future
it may be physically impossible but until we test them with catastrophic conditions we won’t know. that said, their long history of fail-safe fail states and the extremely reduced physical constraints (lower pressure, lower temps, lower amounts of fissile material, lower enrichment, etc.,) make me think you’re right, but it’s gonna be hard to prove because we’re having such difficulty getting the larger industry to test the shit much less deploy it in any reasonable amount of time.
Modern thorium reactors don’t exist on the power grid.
For now
I live near a strategic asset. I bend over and kiss my ass good bye because the good roads out of town just got super clogged.
Maybe get the good bottle out and hope the ABM stuff actually works this decade.
Nothing I can do. As far as I know there is no bomb safety infrastructure near my house plus I’m afraid of getting trapped underground so I wouldn’t want to risk sitting in one.
I’d crack a beer, sit out on my deck and call my family and close friends to say my goodbyes.
I live in a shithole 100km from a NATO capital. I’m not expecting a direct or near hit, so the fallout is my main concern. I should have at least 20-30 minutes to get comfy.
I’ve got potable water in jugs in the basement already. I’ll just grab a couple of mattresses, sleeping bags, camping stove, food, solar/crank radio and head down there. Also some duct tape to seal up the ventilation.
Don’t use the stove if you’re going to seal up any ventilation.
Ah just dump all my cat’s treats in her bowl and probably go lie down.
