Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I live near Cleveland, so as long as it only was contained to DC and did not lead to an all out nuclear war, I'd tough out whatever hard times may be ahead, and go from there. If it led to all out nuclear war, I'd take myself and my family as close as I could to the center of Cleveland and wait to be turned into a rice krispy as I wouldn't want to survive the after effects of radiation posioning, and mass starvation.
I'm not familiar with the website the column was on but I'm assuming he used DC as an example because that's where this website does its business. The advice probably is good for any large city.
"...since President Obama worries more about the threat of terrorists' improvised nuclear device going off in a major American city than anything Russia can throw at us, I was wondering if the government had deigned to share with us citizens any tips for, you know, surviving something their own intelligence points to as the likeliest unlikely Black Swan event...Very few people in Washington, D.C., who work for the government have any idea what they would do if a 10-kiloton nuclear device exploded at the intersection of 16th and K streets."
You know what to do, right? We've all seen the movies. You jump in the car and high tail it out of town. But of course, you and everyone else has the same idea, so you all die on the highway unless you are on a motorcycle with a full tank of gas and can weave in and out of traffic.
BUT, that's not what you should do says the writer of this column. If you live in a big city, you might want to take a look at it. I've always wondered in places where a lot of people use mass transit how they would survive an incident requiring them to flee...As it turns out, you don't flee.
Coming from a Right winger, this is hate porn. You surely get enormous pleasure thinking about this happening. You can stay in your low-value area and leave engaged, modern life to us youngsters in DC, thanks.
He was responding to the sociopathic posters who would celebrate if a nuclear bomb hit Washington.
Sorry, no, if you go back and look at post #25, he was responding DIRECTLY to my post, which he quoted.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Things would stay he same!
