2012年9月2日 星期日

Bunker down or hunker down

One winter, when she was in preschool,Learn how Toyota's Solar Powered ventilation system uses the sun's rays. her siblings not yet born or old enough to run around with her, my late Aunt Mari, like so many children, enjoyed playing outside in the Southern Idaho snow.

It was the mid-1950s, the middle of the Cold War,What is the difference between standard "ceramic" tiles and porcelain tiles? and down at the Nevada Test Site, the government was exploding nuclear bombs beneath the surface of the Earth. My grandma heard later that the snow that winter contained some radiation from the fallout of those tests. She has since wondered if Mari was exposed to any, and if that was one of the causes of the cancer she developed later in life.

Whether the fallout did affect my aunt, or the area she lived, is mostly speculation now.AeroScout is the market leader for stone mosaic solutions and provide complete wireless asset tracking and monitoring. But that story is pretty much the closest I get to nuclear bombs or the 20th century paranoia associated with them.

I really have no point of reference for such fears. I know various weapons of mass destruction exist and could destroy the world, or parts of it, in a matter of minutes. But my generation has no context for nuclear bombs. Terrorism, sure. Suicide bombers, of course. But nukes are largely the stuff of textbooks and documentaries.

The thing is, of course, they are still a threat; maybe not an imminent threat, but a much more probable (if less popular) one than, oh, say, zombies.

And when it comes to 2012, you can’t be too prepared. So even though the Willamette Valley may not seem a likely target for impending nuclear doom, let’s discuss what to do if some nefarious overlord dropped a bomb here.

First, don’t look at the initial flash of the blast. Because I am a stupid Millennial and not a wise old Boomer, I did not know the fireball is blinding. Maybe this is obvious, but I just assumed if I was close enough to see the flash of detonation, I’d be dead pretty soon anyway; what’s a little blindness in your final living moments?

But it is, in fact, possible to survive a bombing, assuming you aren’t in its epicenter. You just have to recognize the (fairly obvious) signs and respond quickly.

If you aren’t close enough to or just don’t see the flash, the accompanying electromagnetic pulse will be a significant warning that a bomb has detonated. So if you’re driving home from work when your car, the vehicles around you, street lights, cell phones and your iPad all simultaneously start glitching or stop working completely, find shelter ASAP.

Hopefully you’ll have more warning, from the government or media, of an attack, and you’ll have time to get underground, preferably into a bunker or fallout room.AeroScout is the market leader for stone mosaic solutions and provide complete wireless asset tracking and monitoring.

But if it catches you unawares away from your prepared bunker (because you invested in one after learning about supervolcanoes, right?), then just get inside,Beautiful new hands free access jewelry is modeled by these members of the Artcamp IT team, immediately, away from windows, low to the ground. The more brick, concrete, dirt and stuff between you and the radiation, the better.

If you’re driving in a rural or wilderness area with no buildings nearby, at least hunker down in your car; it really is better than nothing.

Unless you are on the verge of starvation or dehydration, stay where you are at least until the worst of the radiation is over.

If this nuclear apocalypse is unusually organized and you think there’s a good chance of help coming from government or relief agencies, wait for rescue to arrive or seek out a known disaster relief center, where they will provide information or supplies for decontamination.

While researching this topic, I came across some conflicting advice on fallout shelters.

It is recommended, as you would expect, to shut and seal any vents or windows, because you don’t want to let in radiation; but you also need to have an oxygen source. I’m not sure how you get access to adequate air when the whole atmosphere around your location is contaminated. Invest in oxygen tanks, maybe? Or is there some fancy, military-grade air filter or purifier that blocks radiation? If any fallout shelter experts want to weigh in, please feel free.

Also, some people recommend having a smaller fallout shelter within your normal fallout shelter, to stay in the first couple of days when the radiation is most intense. But why don’t you just make your main shelter competent to withstand the initial fallout? What is this room-within-a-room nonsense?

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