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Nice Guy Eddie

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11 hours ago, Shady Ray said:

Essentially even the smallest nuke dropped on the center of Munich will leave me vaporized, so I guess I will miss the "fallout" of the global nuclear holocaust.

 

Here you can check your specific location and choose the type of nuke...fun for the whole family!

 

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

 

Houston here. If the attack is on petrochemical plants in Pasadena or Deerpark, I should survive.  Drop it on downtown, and my worries go away.

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13 hours ago, CoTex said:

It’s going to be like that sad ass movie The Road isn’t it?

I’ll be limping down the road pushing a shopping cart and trying not to get eaten by some roving band of aggy.

 

I don’t thing i need to tell you this but grab a metal shopping cart if you can. 

If you fall and die, don’t worry I will raise your kid and he will avenge you. 
 

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17 hours ago, DougHdTx1968 said:
I have a basement full of iodized salt, for several reasons. 
First, salt is fungible. There will soon be no more currency, so we will be forced to barter.
Second, humans need salt to live. If we do not have it, we cannot sweat. Or if we do, it will be very weird.
Third, it is iodized, so you can protect yourself from radiation poisoning by prophylactally eating a few cups per day.
Fourth, salt is a perservative, so regardless of the source of your meat, you can keep it edible for some time.
Fifth, salt can be weaponized and used to eradicate the larvae of rapidly approaching death snails.  You have to get them as slugs, before they have a chance to evolve.
 
 
 

I claim "Death Snails" as my post-apocalyptic band name.

Mine is Preemptive Diaper and the Bonita Fish. 

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26 minutes ago, Js1 said:

If you think the bonita fish are big now, wait until they’re mutated 

Well then I hope the Cubes and Super Chef Bobby Flay survive. 

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As luck would have it, there's a nuclear bunker/fallout shelter in the basement of my office building.  I have a key card.  Plan is to get here, get all the water jugs out of our office and into the shelter with whatever food we can carry for us and the dogs (I'm not leaving the dogs). 

 

At that point, I guess I just fart around on Surly for 5 weeks or so until things clear up. 

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40 minutes ago, dcbc said:

As luck would have it, there's a nuclear bunker/fallout shelter in the basement of my office building.  I have a key card.  Plan is to get here, get all the water jugs out of our office and into the shelter with whatever food we can carry for us and the dogs (I'm not leaving the dogs). 

 

At that point, I guess I just fart around on Surly for 5 weeks or so until things clear up. 

Is your firm hiring?  I'm an expert in The Rule in Shelley's Case, and I'm in the office every day no later than 10:30 a.m. sharp.

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15 hours ago, Shady Ray said:

Essentially even the smallest nuke dropped on the center of Munich will leave me vaporized, so I guess I will miss the "fallout" of the global nuclear holocaust.

 

Here you can check your specific location and choose the type of nuke...fun for the whole family!

 

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

 

I used the 800kt model shown to be in the Russian arsenal. Using that, I am just far away from Lockhead in West Ft. Worth to not have any damage. If, for some reason, they hit Comanche Peak nuclear plant, It might blow my windows out. I guess putting in tempered glass on the side of the house that faces the golf course has other benefits.

What was the least depressing thing I saw was the casualty counts. Only 3100 in West Ft. Worth and only 656 at Comanche Peak. I have a cousin that is a big wig at Comanche Peak, might go sit with him in the reactor building. I worked over there the summer after I graduated high school. The walls are 40 ft. thick and more rebar than concrete. If the plant was hit, it won't do anything to it. Being built in the 70's, having it hit with a nuke was a real possibility, so it was designed to withstand being hit.

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Houston here. If the attack is on petrochemical plants in Pasadena or Deerpark, I should survive.  Drop it on downtown, and my worries go away.

I cannot express how much I’d rather die in a nuclear fireball than survive to experience Houston while the ship channel and refineries burn uncontrolled, with a possible side of radiation poisoning.
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5 hours ago, South Austin said:

Is your firm hiring?  I'm an expert in The Rule in Shelley's Case, and I'm in the office every day no later than 10:30 a.m. sharp.

Good to know.  I'm a third amendment specialist.  But I'm a government appellate type.  10:30 would be a tough sell.  I need to be there pontificating by 8:30 . . . ish

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8 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

You guys are crazy. This "I hope I just vaporize" thing... I don't get it. I'd do anything to keep my kids alive, and until they are older that means living myself. 

I think the sentiment is that vaporization is better than dying over the course of a week or two from radiation poisoning.

 

I saw that shit on HBO's Cherynobyl...give me that vaporization all day errrrrrday over that radiation poisoning shit.

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I’m planning there being on a dip in real estate prices following a nuclear strike, so I’ll trade my ammo for cash and buy up a lot of class A property to start my real estate empire.

I’m also betting there will be shorter lines at Franklin, Snows, etc. so I may drive back to TX and finally do a big brisket tour with minimal waits. 

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24 minutes ago, Shady Ray said:

I think the sentiment is that vaporization is better than dying over the course of a week or two from radiation poisoning.

 

I saw that shit on HBO's Cherynobyl...give me that vaporization all day errrrrrday over that radiation poisoning shit.

But I think the research shows the radiation after the first 24 hours isn't so terrible. The power will probably be out. Things would be right proper fucked. But the reality is unless you are right at the target, your going to survive. Elevated risk of cancer maybe, but not Chernobyl deaths. Remember those poor souls (30?) were basically at fresh core debris. Maybe not if you live right in DC or LA or NYC or next to some base. But mostly if you are few miles away from a normal yield MIRV impact, you may live. And then... might as well be prepared? Seems awfully foolish to just give up and let your kids die because Surly is down.

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But I think the research shows the radiation after the first 24 hours isn't so terrible. The power will probably be out. Things would be right proper fucked. But the reality is unless you are right at the target, your going to survive. Elevated risk of cancer maybe, but not Chernobyl deaths. Remember those poor souls (30?) were basically at fresh core debris. Maybe not if you live right in DC or LA or NYC or next to some base. But mostly if you are few miles away from a normal yield MIRV impact, you may live. And then... might as well be prepared? Seems awfully foolish to just give up and let your kids die because Surly is down.
Power may be out? LOL

The multiple emps will wipe out all modern electronics, none of our toys will work.

Those of you saying it may not be all that bad are crazy.. if Russia launches just one nucleat missile at a nato, we all respond and russia will launch all in kind. We and the worl will be fucked for a very long time. Fall out and nuclear winter will kill almost everything that survived the initial blasts.

Vaporize me please


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2 hours ago, Shady Ray said:

I think the sentiment is that vaporization is better than dying over the course of a week or two from radiation poisoning.

 

I saw that shit on HBO's Cherynobyl...give me that vaporization all day errrrrrday over that radiation poisoning shit.

Not to mention the "winter factor" and depending upon the severity of the strike(s), wiping out crops and a lot of fauna that we eat - or making it unedible.  Also, when the supply chains either suffer unworkable gaps or collapse altogether we'd have to learn to hunt and eat rabbits or something.

Not saying this is definite, but the point here is that just because you're not right in the "death zone" and may be half a continent away, doesn't mean that society wouldn't in part at least collapse and suffering would be enormous.

No one really knows which extreme, but I'd put my money on "zap me now" if I knew the next 10 years of my life at least would be reduced to "Naked and Afraid" levels of existence - or even somewhere near it.

E.g. this might be an extreme - or might not - but it's kinda stark reading.  The notion that the entire planet wouldn't experience severe disruption with advanced nuclear war I think long ago went poo-poo (when we stopped getting under desks, yeah that's the ticket).

https://listverse.com/2017/06/23/10-brutal-realities-of-life-after-the-nuclear-apocalypse/

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Vaporized immediately is the way to go if you don't have one of those fallout apartments in the old silos. The whole idea that human life will be exterminated is super stupid though. No one is going to nuke the non nuke countries. The human race will be set back at most a century, but probably not even since all the stuff that has been discovered is well documented. Standing on the shoulders of Giants and whatnot. 

I look forward to serving my Bolivian overlords.
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4 hours ago, Reagan1k said:

 

I’m also betting there will be shorter lines at Franklin, Snows, etc. so I may drive back to TX and finally do a big brisket tour with minimal waits. 

Hot and fast cook talk not going away.

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On 3/4/2022 at 11:11 AM, South Austin said:

I mean, if I lived in BFE somewhere, I'd consider having some kind of catastrophe plan.  But as others have alluded, given that I live in a major metropolitan area, and that we're not likely going to be given any considerable advance warning that the warheads are flying, it's going to be pointless making my way out of Austin, so better to hunker down with my loved ones, say my prayers, and crank up some Freedom Rock.

Not a bad idea think I'll blast some Skynard before the nukes hit...

 

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