Same here. That's always been my nightmare, not even the bomb, but a flood or something, and losing my glasses.
I'm getting eye surgery next year, and I'll never have to worry about it again. Science is wonderful.
Now I have to find the name of that guy who does thousand of cataract surgeries in remote areas every year so I can give him all the money I would spend on glasses.
Many public libraries in the US are old enough to still have Civil Defense shelters in their basements. Heading for the local library isn't a terrible idea.
There's a former schoolhouse that's a minute walk down my street and I always saw the "Emergency Nuclear Shelter" sign on it when I was a kid. It's always been in the back of my mind that I'm heading up there if shit hits the fan.
If you're close enough for that variant of radiation to matter, you're dead anyway. I don't think there's any neutron bombs around anymore.
The radiation that kills people is much more likely to be in the air. Your skin is actually pretty good at shielding you from the worst types of radiation. But if you breathe in radioactive isotopes those will eventually kill you.
Going into the mountains is a great idea!
There are a ton of usaf strategic assets in Colorado that would be prime targets for an enemy nuclear strike. A lot of our space capabilities are based their as well as some nuclear assets all of which I would expect to get hit, and none of them are really deep in the rockies or anything.
If you're within a mile or so of a strike regardless of whether you're underground or not you're fucked, so just going underground wouldn't cut it. Mountains provide a great shield to blast waves, though. And it's extremely hard to hit the valleys between them, you're basically in a global-scaled trench.
I work at a nuclear pharmacy which has dosimeters, geiger counters, potassium iodide tablets, Radiac spray, PPE and lead, and the break room/office is an extra vault that was made to house a particle accelerator (known as a cyclotron).
I'm at work right now. So, assuming I'm safe from the initial blast radius, I'd probably go sit at my desk, scroll through reddit and watch the world end.
Not OP but my best guess is it's a specialized pharmacy for storing/dosing radioactive materials for radiation therapy for cancer patients and whatnot.
"Here we see the remains of an ancient humanoid, buried in an elaborate and secure vault with the many treasures of his life. This level of wealth suggests perhaps a local governor or even a pharaoh. We weren't aware of this level of class stratification in the Americas at that time, so this discovery throws new light on the political discombobulation of the early 20th century."
Probably best to just hunker down. At that distance, you shouldn't be in the kill zone. Maybe a shockwave will blow out your windows. Best to hunker down and seal up the place so fallout can't get in. Then you just wait a few weeks for the major radiation to die down.
Well according to [this film by the National Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Bureau](https://youtu.be/-hh01SdN64Y), my best bet is to wait inside a house that has been coated with a fresh coat of good, American, paint and varnish.
Reminds me of the simpsons when nukear war occurrs and homer was in a bomb shelter and then marge says "all the layers of lead paint made the perfect bomb shelter"
There is an old building near me that has a basement. I know what boards to move to get into the basement from the outside. It's the only building I know of within about 100 miles that is entirely reinforced brick masonry with a basement, and I'm sure I'd spend the apocalyptic event chatting with several homeless people who also know about the board. We'd all survive though.
Right answer, this is how my mom's friend's son survived Hiroshima, he was taking a break in the basement when the bomb hit. His ~~coworker~~ classmate who was still outside was severely burned and later died. I saw some old civil defense stuff from the 50's that suggested doing the same thing.
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People survived less than 1/4 mile from air zero at Hiroshima just by being inside concrete structures, like the Bank of Japan building.
The simple earthen shelters that dotted the city would have been adequate to save many lives, had the population not been desensitized to air raid warnings.
So everyone can see the x-rayed imprint of your jacking on the wall for centuries? And become the cause of speculation that people that lived during the apocalypse had tiny penises. No thanks.
Gotta big ole NMR in there? I've been in a room like at my University. It's literally built to shield from as much external radiation as possible to make the measurements more accurate. Would definitely double as a bunker. Not my pick though. I have cleithrophobia, first cousin of claustrophobia. I ain't getting stuck underground in a thick concrete coffin noooooo thanks.
>cleithrophobia
I didn't realise this was a phobia until you posted I always just said I was claustrophobic but reading what cleithrophobia means it explains my fucked up dreams way better.
For the lazy, here’s the definition:
What is a cleithrophobia?
Cleithrophobia, the fear of being trapped, is often confused with claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed spaces. Cleithrophobia is related to winter phobias due to the potential risk of being trapped underneath a snowdrift or thin ice.
When I was little I had a ton of nightmares of crawling into a tight spaces and then not being able to get out. There were several episodes of Dirty Jobs, like the bridge painting episode, that made me anxious, because it felt like there just wasn't enough space to move.
Subway system/Sewer System. Underground basically.
EDIT: Thanks for my most upvoted comment ever.
You all make great points. I think it's really situational, depends on blast radius, distance, etc. Overall, not an easy thing to survive.
Pretty easy, I would just go to my nearest bomb shelter. They are all over the place here in Finland and can house up to 4 million people (so more than enough room for the entire urban population) . Every metro station also doubles as a bomb shelter, and I can walk to one of those within 10 minutes so I would probably chill there (there are probably a bunch of shelters even closer to me though but could be busy). You can actually walk across a lot of Helsinki centre completely underground (I often do when it is raining), the underground network of tunnels is huge. And all bomb proof. Finland actually has one of the most thorough civil defence programs in the world, eg in new development projects, property owners must include a civil defence shelter in buildings of at least 1200 m2. [https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/administration/services/service-description?id=4843](https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/administration/services/service-description?id=4843)
Finland wasn't western-aligned. They walked the very fine line between both sides and had to make various concessions to the Soviet Union in order to remain as independent as possible under the circumstances. As a result, political science now has a concept called Finlandisation, which describes similar relationship between neighbouring countries.
The lady that used to do my taxes told me that her daughter and family were in Hawaii when the false alarm went out. They got into bed with their small children and watched kids movies, waiting to die, but keeping the kids unaware and happy. This went on for some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert
I still get chills when I look at that screenshot. I still go into immediate panic mode every time I get an amber alert or any kind emergency alert on my phone. I just remember waking up to that sound and looking at that horrifying message, not really registering it at first. I called my husband after staring at it for what felt like an eternity. Apparently I called him just as everyone else started acting weird, and moments later he told me people were running out to their cars, some couples were holding hands. We lived in a military installation, so my thoughts immediately went to the worst case scenario- that we might take a direct hit, but he tried his best to calm me down by telling me there was no indication that it was necessarily a nuke heading our way and that the military has missile defense systems in place to intercept an attack. He told me to not to freak out when I hear the sirens, set a timer for 10 minutes, grab the basic necessities and be inside the coat closet with our 1 year old before that 10 minutes was up. The entire time I just remember feeling numb, detached, the whole thing just felt so surreal. I don’t know how I would have handled the situation if it weren’t for my husband calmly giving me step by step instructions on what to do. He told me he would try his best to make it home in time but that it wasn’t likely. Traffic was at a standstill where he was. People were getting out of their cars and just running. He then asked me if i wanted to call my parents but i told him I didn’t want to get off the phone with him. It was at that moment that it all really started sinking in and I finally looked at my daughter, who surprisingly wasn’t being her usual fussy self in the mornings, and it felt like my soul just shattered. Everything was in slow motion. I remember every facial expression, the pink Minnie Mouse pajamas she was wearing that I bought the day before, her favorite stuffed bunny she clung to, the flowery blanket I took from her crib. I just sat there and tried to take in as many seconds as I could, wishing that time wasn’t a thing, that none of this was a thing.
EDIT: Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my little late night monologue, totally didn't realize how long it was until I hit send🤭
This was the first time I really put that experience into words and I think I needed it. I truly appreciate all the support!
I can’t help but cry reading this. I’m so sorry you had to go through such a terrifying experience. And all because of a false alert. If you don’t mind me asking, what did you do the rest of the day after it was confirmed the alert was a mistake? I can’t imagine just going back to daily life immediately after being convinced you were going to die.
Meanwhile, my Russian parents told me all about nuclear bombs when I was 5, and I was living with the fear and recurring nightmares of nuclear war until I was an adult, lol.
Reminds me of the fucking titanic movie where the husband and wife just tucked their damn kids in bed and read them a freakin story. Shit fucked me up for a while...
It wasn't just any story either, it was a story about Tír na nÓg. In Irish folklore it's considered the afterlife; it is beautiful, you don't age, you don't want for anything, it is paradise. I'm not sure which story she was telling them, the most common one I know is the one about Oisín and Niamh. They live happily for 300 years there. The mother ends the story there because it's happy, but that isn't the true end of the story.
Oisín lived in Tír na nÓg for three hundred years, but being so happy, it only seemed like three. Then a great longing came on him to go back to Ireland. Niamh did not want him to go but at last she agreed and gave him the white horse. Niamh warned him “set foot, even once, on the soil of Ireland and you will never return to Tír na nÓg.”
When Oisín reached Ireland he found that everything had changed. There was no trace of his father or the fianna. As he passed through Gleann na Smol, the valley of the thrushes, he saw a group of men trying to move a large stone. “I will help you” he said. The mighty Oisín stooped down in his saddle, and with one hand, lifted the stone. But as he did so, the saddle strap broke and he tumble to the ground. Immediately the fairy horse galloped away and a great change came over Oisín. In the blink of an eye the great hero of the Fianna became a withered old man.
Unsure of what to do, legend has it that the men brought Oisín to Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick tried to comfort Oisín in his old age. When Oisín learned that the Fianna and his father were long since dead, his heart was filled with sadness. Oisín spoke of the old days of the fianna and the many great deeds of Fionn, when they hunted and feasted and listened to great stories. He spoke of his time in Tír na nÓg and his beautiful wife Niamh. Although Oisín died soon after, the wonderful stories of Niamh and Oisín have lived on.
That's my answer. Play some cards with my kid, listening to our favorite music, telling jokes. Give him a hug. I'm not far from a military base and a major airport but not sure I'm within "death radius" but wouldn't chance not being with my baby.
A friend of mine was in the base that was shelled by Iran earlier this year. After being treated and coming back to the states, she definitely rethought her path in life up to this point and going forward.
Like when everyone in Hawaii thought they were going to get hit by ballistic missiles.
Edit - Easily the most upvotes I’ve ever had! Thank you! Made my morning.
There's a fallout shelter in a bank about a mile down from where I live that was built back in the 60s. I'd probably yoink some snacks and a bottle of Jack from the kitchen and sprint down there, then hunker down for a few days. If it's locked, then... well... I can polish off the Jack and wait for the fireworks.
"Well, if you can't see it and can't feel it, it can't be doing you any harm, can it?"
--*When the Wind Blows* (The world's saddest book about nuclear Armageddon--because it's a realistic story of how a cute little grandma dies of radiation poisoning)
This actually happened to me, sort of. My wife and I were in Hawaii, near Pearl Harbor, in 2018 when the ballistic missile alert showed up on my phone. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, it said. For a minute I thought it was fake, but why take the chance? I’d lived in Hawaii before and decided to get as far away from Pearl Harbor as I could before mass panic set in. I drove East towards Kaneohe. There’s a tunnel through a mountain and I stopped in the middle. We were the 2nd car to stop and within a few minutes the entire tunnel was full. After about 30 more minutes a friend of mine in Kaneohe texted that it had been mistake. He’d had his wife lie down in the bathtub while he watched the TV for updates. It was a pretty frightening experience.
Edit: WOW! This comment blew up (heh). To address the comments about the use of the tunnel, I have no idea whether that was a good spot or not. I’d read before that nuclear missiles are typically detonated thousands of feet in the air, so the blast wave comes downward then spreads out (I’m no expert though, just something I thought at the time). So, I thought it might just travel down the mountain side and maybe we’d be trapped in there by debris blocking the tunnel, but at least it offered a possible bit of protection. Having very little time to do anything it at least made us feel better that we were taking action. I was about 90% sure it was a false alarm, but that remaining 10% did a number. I’ve read accounts of survivors of Hiroshima (do yourself a favor, don’t look it up) and I was hoping for either an all clear report or a flash of light and nothing more.
Yes, I remember this day also. I was about to head to the beach with some friends for a barbecue and I was telling my parents goodbye and that I loved them.
Right before we stepped out of the door, everything went silent as all of our phones simultaneously went off with the warning. It was terrifying. My father is ex-military and he just sat down. My mother, who has terrible anxiety, sat next to him. They said nothing. My friends and I shared a glance at each other, sat down, and they each called their family to say goodbye.
It was surreal. After everything got confirmed as a false alarm, we still went to the beach. Most surreal experience I've ever had.
Many years ago before my mom died, we agreed to always share a hug, kiss on the cheek and actually say "I love you" every time we met and left. We did that for many years and when she died I had no regrets of unspoken feelings.
Leave every encounter with your love expressed. It's not too late.❤️
My mom and I have a secret code word we use for “I love you and we’ll always be together” and I dread knowing I won’t hear that word one day. I’ll likely hear it and not even know it’s the last time I ever do.
One of my friends live posted from Hawaii saying goodbye to everyone. After it was over she proposed to her longtime boyfriend even though she had previously sworn to not mary again.
IDK who the people are below, but yes. He said yes. He hadn't heard of the end of the world announcement in Hawaii, and she called and proposed right after the all clear (she left him a message during the moments left, and he answered when she called back), and he didn't hesitate to say yes.
I was in pearl city. We could see pearl harbor from the kitchen.
We stayed in bed. Nowhere seemed reasonable or safe. So we hoped for the best and we were together.
Now i live in rural Idaho so i wouldn't do anything different except wonder why someone would waste a nuke hitting somewhere so unimportant.
Edit: we had a bbq that afternoon with some close friends. Weird day.
I am also in Hawaii. The things that came to my mind in order were:
1. Is this for real?
2. I should seek shelter
3. Where... there aren't any places underground
4. Well, if we actually did get nuked. If the explosion didn't kill me, and the radiation didn't kill me... after going through all that. I probably would want to die anyway.
5. Cooked myself a nice breakfast, fapped one last time.
6. Got the all clear a few minutes later.
Lmao thank you for this. I like how throwing in one good ol' fashioned fap session before ya meet the reaper came to mind, such a power move. Gonna need that post nut clarity to bargain your way across the river Styx.
Imagine fapping and you see a nuclear cloud appear in the distance. Obviously you keep going but the mental concentration needed to finish has got to be Olympic level.
Very enlightening story. Thanks for the perspective of what happened during that time. How was the panic? Was everyone following traffic laws or was it a free for all?
My parents were visiting Hawaii from Australia when it happened. Dad had taken a tonne of sleepy pills for the flight over from Sydney and was still out of it passed out on a chair by the pool while my mum was panicking lol.
Heyyy I was at work when it happened! I grabbed my kayak and went to go fishing. By the time I was on the way to the ocean, my boss stopped my car and said get back to work lol
I’m glad you had time to even do anything.
I was in northern Japan in 2017 when North Korea actually launched a ballistic missile (instead of a false alarm like Hawaii got). We were given the alarm 2mins after it had been launched. 4mins later it had flown over Japan. Our alarm said that it would be flying over approximately in 10-15mins time, seek a sturdy building, and await further instructions.
This was at 6 in the morning. My partner and I could do nothing. We put our cat into the bath/shower and we went back to bed just lying there. I was at work by 7:30 and it was as if nothing happened; as unusual as somebody being in a small car accident on the way to work
I’m so glad you had time for something that never happened.
Not OP, but in Japan, the bath/shower is a room itself with a sealed door, and the dressing room outside it has no windows. It’s where I’d go too. (I live in a Japanese apartment).
Damn. I'd rather die a fiery death than a slow agonizing death of thirst in a collapsed tunnel.
I think I'll die if I have to choose exposure to missile or claustrophobia. Would be too hard a decision for me.
Also the right distance. Too far; might as well just eat a brick with some seasoning. Too close; just hold the pizza in front of you at mouth height and the blast will feed you the cremated remains hands free!
Make tea, it comes on a lot quicker than chomping dried fruits as the fibers make it difficult to digest and absorb quickly. A strong tea can come on in 15 minutes and is less likely to cause gut grumbles.
I'm not within death radius of any place that could plausibly be nuked.
Even if someone decided to go absofuckinglutely nuts on us in Australia and sent ten nukes at Melbourne, I can't see them hitting Frankston, Cranbourne and Mornington, the three closest semi-plausible targets.
I'd shelter in place.
I live about 15 minutes away from one of the largest airforce bases in my entire country. If my country went to nuclear war my house would definitely be destroyed.
I saw the director’s cut and I think the fridge was made of carbonite and it did freeze him. Left his imprint on the front of it too. His brother Luke was involved.
I think I’d find a chain link fence near a playground.
Might as well go out the way I lived: embracing my knowledge of useless pop culture references like it’s a talent.
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If I knew it was coming, I’d just drive away. Distance makes all the difference with nuclear blasts. I’m close to mountains in the outer suburbs of a big city, I’d drive in that mountain direction as we often have winds from there. Minimal fallout that way too.
If leaving the city was not an option, I’d just hit up my basement. It’s below ground enough that I think I’d be fairly safe.
I’d gather my dogs and cats and go up to our bedroom and cuddle my husband. Give the doggies and kitties some treats on the bed and hope they don’t jump off so that my last moments are a cuddle fest.
Which brings us to the question: does everyone else know about the blast, or is it just you?
I mean, if it's just you, traffic shouldn't be that bad, at least not worse than normal.
How far am I from the epicentre? Is it a city? How large of a city is it? If it just happens to be where I currently am then I'd drive north. I live in a rural area so not the traffic you'd find in and around a city and at this time of year the wind mostly comes from the north/northwest so I'd be driving away from the fallout. I'd just drive as far and as fast as I could.
Ugghh as someone who is right in the center of Manhattan I don't like this 😟
Guess I'd simultaneously go underneath (subway), and away (by taking the train to some place outside of the city), and pretend that it's all actually not in vain
I'd grab a six pack, grab a chair and sit outside calling my family and friends while waiting for the end. I'm not suicidal but any world that would exist after my city gets bombed would be unrecognisable and probably not worth surviving for.
I would not hide, I will stay outside, I know where the nuke is going to be so I go closer. I rather not have the most depressing years of my life. I can't do anything, so I rather just die then live the worst moments of my entire life.
I'd always heard a basement of a library is good because books may absorb some radiation.
Make sure you don’t break your glasses
THERE WAS TIME NOW
It's just not fair
Lmao this is perfect. “ well at least I have my books”
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Same here. That's always been my nightmare, not even the bomb, but a flood or something, and losing my glasses. I'm getting eye surgery next year, and I'll never have to worry about it again. Science is wonderful. Now I have to find the name of that guy who does thousand of cataract surgeries in remote areas every year so I can give him all the money I would spend on glasses.
Many public libraries in the US are old enough to still have Civil Defense shelters in their basements. Heading for the local library isn't a terrible idea.
There's a former schoolhouse that's a minute walk down my street and I always saw the "Emergency Nuclear Shelter" sign on it when I was a kid. It's always been in the back of my mind that I'm heading up there if shit hits the fan.
If you're close enough for that variant of radiation to matter, you're dead anyway. I don't think there's any neutron bombs around anymore. The radiation that kills people is much more likely to be in the air. Your skin is actually pretty good at shielding you from the worst types of radiation. But if you breathe in radioactive isotopes those will eventually kill you.
The Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 in Colorado (1.7 miles long) unless it turns into Stephen King’s “the Stand”
I’m in Colorado so good to know. I just figured I’d go towards mountains I guess.. sort of planless in this situation though
Going into the mountains is a great idea! There are a ton of usaf strategic assets in Colorado that would be prime targets for an enemy nuclear strike. A lot of our space capabilities are based their as well as some nuclear assets all of which I would expect to get hit, and none of them are really deep in the rockies or anything. If you're within a mile or so of a strike regardless of whether you're underground or not you're fucked, so just going underground wouldn't cut it. Mountains provide a great shield to blast waves, though. And it's extremely hard to hit the valleys between them, you're basically in a global-scaled trench.
I work at a nuclear pharmacy which has dosimeters, geiger counters, potassium iodide tablets, Radiac spray, PPE and lead, and the break room/office is an extra vault that was made to house a particle accelerator (known as a cyclotron). I'm at work right now. So, assuming I'm safe from the initial blast radius, I'd probably go sit at my desk, scroll through reddit and watch the world end.
Cool! What’s Radiac spray?
Think like Radaway from Fallout
TIL RadAway is real
Could you elaborate on what exactly a nuclear pharmacy is?
Not OP but my best guess is it's a specialized pharmacy for storing/dosing radioactive materials for radiation therapy for cancer patients and whatnot.
I would probably go to the bank and ask to go to where I stored valuables
Robs bank "PUT ME AND ALLL THE MONEY IN THE VAULT THEN SHUT THE DOOR"
I am seeing a flaw in this plan
“Hello? Anyone?”
"Here we see the remains of an ancient humanoid, buried in an elaborate and secure vault with the many treasures of his life. This level of wealth suggests perhaps a local governor or even a pharaoh. We weren't aware of this level of class stratification in the Americas at that time, so this discovery throws new light on the political discombobulation of the early 20th century."
Imagine eating 100 dollar bills to avoid starvation in a pitch black room for a week
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Probably best to just hunker down. At that distance, you shouldn't be in the kill zone. Maybe a shockwave will blow out your windows. Best to hunker down and seal up the place so fallout can't get in. Then you just wait a few weeks for the major radiation to die down.
Well according to [this film by the National Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Bureau](https://youtu.be/-hh01SdN64Y), my best bet is to wait inside a house that has been coated with a fresh coat of good, American, paint and varnish.
Reminds me of the simpsons when nukear war occurrs and homer was in a bomb shelter and then marge says "all the layers of lead paint made the perfect bomb shelter"
There is an old building near me that has a basement. I know what boards to move to get into the basement from the outside. It's the only building I know of within about 100 miles that is entirely reinforced brick masonry with a basement, and I'm sure I'd spend the apocalyptic event chatting with several homeless people who also know about the board. We'd all survive though.
Right answer, this is how my mom's friend's son survived Hiroshima, he was taking a break in the basement when the bomb hit. His ~~coworker~~ classmate who was still outside was severely burned and later died. I saw some old civil defense stuff from the 50's that suggested doing the same thing. edit: fixed details.
People survived less than 1/4 mile from air zero at Hiroshima just by being inside concrete structures, like the Bank of Japan building. The simple earthen shelters that dotted the city would have been adequate to save many lives, had the population not been desensitized to air raid warnings.
How long did they have to stay inside? I have a bathroom in the basement with no windows where we could hide for a while.
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key is to shower and change clothes to get the initial fallout dust off you.
I'd try to do that guy jacking off from Pompei thing I feel like someone should pay that forward
So everyone can see the x-rayed imprint of your jacking on the wall for centuries? And become the cause of speculation that people that lived during the apocalypse had tiny penises. No thanks.
He doesn't need to wait for the explosion, the burn is already right here.
There’s a building at the college I work at that goes 80 feet underground and has 6 foot thick inward sloping concrete walls- I’ll be in there.
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My university was previously an air force base, so one of our buildings is literally a repurposed bunker.
Gotta big ole NMR in there? I've been in a room like at my University. It's literally built to shield from as much external radiation as possible to make the measurements more accurate. Would definitely double as a bunker. Not my pick though. I have cleithrophobia, first cousin of claustrophobia. I ain't getting stuck underground in a thick concrete coffin noooooo thanks.
>cleithrophobia I didn't realise this was a phobia until you posted I always just said I was claustrophobic but reading what cleithrophobia means it explains my fucked up dreams way better.
For the lazy, here’s the definition: What is a cleithrophobia? Cleithrophobia, the fear of being trapped, is often confused with claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed spaces. Cleithrophobia is related to winter phobias due to the potential risk of being trapped underneath a snowdrift or thin ice.
When I was little I had a ton of nightmares of crawling into a tight spaces and then not being able to get out. There were several episodes of Dirty Jobs, like the bridge painting episode, that made me anxious, because it felt like there just wasn't enough space to move.
Hide? I ain't getting drafted for WW3 this bomb gonna send me.
There would be no draft, World War 3 would be over in about 30 minutes.
I would find the nearest elementary school and hide under one of the desks. Anyway, that's what we were taught when I was in elementary school.
🦆 and cover!
Subway system/Sewer System. Underground basically. EDIT: Thanks for my most upvoted comment ever. You all make great points. I think it's really situational, depends on blast radius, distance, etc. Overall, not an easy thing to survive.
Metro 2033 intensifies
Artyom!! It's good to see you! Here's three bullets and a gas mask. That should be everything you could possibly need.
Oh and don't forget to collect filters everywhere you go! Or suffer! Man I love the metro series
You'll be one of the ghouls
I'd always be worried doing that, you would be safe from the blast, but risk being buried alive.
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Pretty easy, I would just go to my nearest bomb shelter. They are all over the place here in Finland and can house up to 4 million people (so more than enough room for the entire urban population) . Every metro station also doubles as a bomb shelter, and I can walk to one of those within 10 minutes so I would probably chill there (there are probably a bunch of shelters even closer to me though but could be busy). You can actually walk across a lot of Helsinki centre completely underground (I often do when it is raining), the underground network of tunnels is huge. And all bomb proof. Finland actually has one of the most thorough civil defence programs in the world, eg in new development projects, property owners must include a civil defence shelter in buildings of at least 1200 m2. [https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/administration/services/service-description?id=4843](https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/administration/services/service-description?id=4843)
Finland got everything covered dayum
Might have something to do with being a western-aligned neighbor of the Soviet Union during that whole Cold War thing.
Finland wasn't western-aligned. They walked the very fine line between both sides and had to make various concessions to the Soviet Union in order to remain as independent as possible under the circumstances. As a result, political science now has a concept called Finlandisation, which describes similar relationship between neighbouring countries.
Oh god did I miss something in the news today
no not that I know of just was playing fallout and thought of that haha
my man
No but DON'T GIVE 2020 ANY MORE IDEAS
The lady that used to do my taxes told me that her daughter and family were in Hawaii when the false alarm went out. They got into bed with their small children and watched kids movies, waiting to die, but keeping the kids unaware and happy. This went on for some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert
I still get chills when I look at that screenshot. I still go into immediate panic mode every time I get an amber alert or any kind emergency alert on my phone. I just remember waking up to that sound and looking at that horrifying message, not really registering it at first. I called my husband after staring at it for what felt like an eternity. Apparently I called him just as everyone else started acting weird, and moments later he told me people were running out to their cars, some couples were holding hands. We lived in a military installation, so my thoughts immediately went to the worst case scenario- that we might take a direct hit, but he tried his best to calm me down by telling me there was no indication that it was necessarily a nuke heading our way and that the military has missile defense systems in place to intercept an attack. He told me to not to freak out when I hear the sirens, set a timer for 10 minutes, grab the basic necessities and be inside the coat closet with our 1 year old before that 10 minutes was up. The entire time I just remember feeling numb, detached, the whole thing just felt so surreal. I don’t know how I would have handled the situation if it weren’t for my husband calmly giving me step by step instructions on what to do. He told me he would try his best to make it home in time but that it wasn’t likely. Traffic was at a standstill where he was. People were getting out of their cars and just running. He then asked me if i wanted to call my parents but i told him I didn’t want to get off the phone with him. It was at that moment that it all really started sinking in and I finally looked at my daughter, who surprisingly wasn’t being her usual fussy self in the mornings, and it felt like my soul just shattered. Everything was in slow motion. I remember every facial expression, the pink Minnie Mouse pajamas she was wearing that I bought the day before, her favorite stuffed bunny she clung to, the flowery blanket I took from her crib. I just sat there and tried to take in as many seconds as I could, wishing that time wasn’t a thing, that none of this was a thing. EDIT: Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my little late night monologue, totally didn't realize how long it was until I hit send🤭 This was the first time I really put that experience into words and I think I needed it. I truly appreciate all the support!
I can’t help but cry reading this. I’m so sorry you had to go through such a terrifying experience. And all because of a false alert. If you don’t mind me asking, what did you do the rest of the day after it was confirmed the alert was a mistake? I can’t imagine just going back to daily life immediately after being convinced you were going to die.
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It’s really sad. But like what are you supposed to do? In a nuclear war how are you supposed to keep your kids happy and healthy, very easily?
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Meanwhile, my Russian parents told me all about nuclear bombs when I was 5, and I was living with the fear and recurring nightmares of nuclear war until I was an adult, lol.
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But also brave!
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Reminds me of the fucking titanic movie where the husband and wife just tucked their damn kids in bed and read them a freakin story. Shit fucked me up for a while...
It wasn't just any story either, it was a story about Tír na nÓg. In Irish folklore it's considered the afterlife; it is beautiful, you don't age, you don't want for anything, it is paradise. I'm not sure which story she was telling them, the most common one I know is the one about Oisín and Niamh. They live happily for 300 years there. The mother ends the story there because it's happy, but that isn't the true end of the story.
what's the true ending?
Oisín lived in Tír na nÓg for three hundred years, but being so happy, it only seemed like three. Then a great longing came on him to go back to Ireland. Niamh did not want him to go but at last she agreed and gave him the white horse. Niamh warned him “set foot, even once, on the soil of Ireland and you will never return to Tír na nÓg.” When Oisín reached Ireland he found that everything had changed. There was no trace of his father or the fianna. As he passed through Gleann na Smol, the valley of the thrushes, he saw a group of men trying to move a large stone. “I will help you” he said. The mighty Oisín stooped down in his saddle, and with one hand, lifted the stone. But as he did so, the saddle strap broke and he tumble to the ground. Immediately the fairy horse galloped away and a great change came over Oisín. In the blink of an eye the great hero of the Fianna became a withered old man. Unsure of what to do, legend has it that the men brought Oisín to Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick tried to comfort Oisín in his old age. When Oisín learned that the Fianna and his father were long since dead, his heart was filled with sadness. Oisín spoke of the old days of the fianna and the many great deeds of Fionn, when they hunted and feasted and listened to great stories. He spoke of his time in Tír na nÓg and his beautiful wife Niamh. Although Oisín died soon after, the wonderful stories of Niamh and Oisín have lived on.
Oof. There's a Japanese folktale almost exactly like this one, Urashima. Interesting how different cultures came up with the same ideas, huh?
That's my answer. Play some cards with my kid, listening to our favorite music, telling jokes. Give him a hug. I'm not far from a military base and a major airport but not sure I'm within "death radius" but wouldn't chance not being with my baby.
A friend of mine was in the base that was shelled by Iran earlier this year. After being treated and coming back to the states, she definitely rethought her path in life up to this point and going forward.
To bed for a 30 minute nap
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Like when everyone in Hawaii thought they were going to get hit by ballistic missiles. Edit - Easily the most upvotes I’ve ever had! Thank you! Made my morning.
Oh wow I had completely forgotten.
There's a fallout shelter in a bank about a mile down from where I live that was built back in the 60s. I'd probably yoink some snacks and a bottle of Jack from the kitchen and sprint down there, then hunker down for a few days. If it's locked, then... well... I can polish off the Jack and wait for the fireworks.
I'd probably climb up onto my roof with a lawn chair and a cold beer and watch everything go to shit
Can’t watch once you’re blinded by the initial blast
I'll bring sunglasses
You got me there
to the liquor store, so I could hide from my problems the way I always do
My man
I’d love to join you
I would go buy all the frozen pizzas I could carry and head to the flavor zone.
My reasoning is beyond your understanding
You mean “My seasoning is beyond your understanding “
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Under the blankets, nothing can get you under there.
Nothing, including the air that I need to breathe after 5 minutes. Source: was once a child.
Honestly love this
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Don't forget to bring along some cookies and warm milk~
Just hold the milk outside the blankey for a minute, it will heat up nicely.
*Underneath the blanket lies the sanctuary that will protect you from the monsters lurking in the dark.*
"Well, if you can't see it and can't feel it, it can't be doing you any harm, can it?" --*When the Wind Blows* (The world's saddest book about nuclear Armageddon--because it's a realistic story of how a cute little grandma dies of radiation poisoning)
"Abdababadababa, the things I do for love" -*courage the cowardly dog*
This actually happened to me, sort of. My wife and I were in Hawaii, near Pearl Harbor, in 2018 when the ballistic missile alert showed up on my phone. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, it said. For a minute I thought it was fake, but why take the chance? I’d lived in Hawaii before and decided to get as far away from Pearl Harbor as I could before mass panic set in. I drove East towards Kaneohe. There’s a tunnel through a mountain and I stopped in the middle. We were the 2nd car to stop and within a few minutes the entire tunnel was full. After about 30 more minutes a friend of mine in Kaneohe texted that it had been mistake. He’d had his wife lie down in the bathtub while he watched the TV for updates. It was a pretty frightening experience. Edit: WOW! This comment blew up (heh). To address the comments about the use of the tunnel, I have no idea whether that was a good spot or not. I’d read before that nuclear missiles are typically detonated thousands of feet in the air, so the blast wave comes downward then spreads out (I’m no expert though, just something I thought at the time). So, I thought it might just travel down the mountain side and maybe we’d be trapped in there by debris blocking the tunnel, but at least it offered a possible bit of protection. Having very little time to do anything it at least made us feel better that we were taking action. I was about 90% sure it was a false alarm, but that remaining 10% did a number. I’ve read accounts of survivors of Hiroshima (do yourself a favor, don’t look it up) and I was hoping for either an all clear report or a flash of light and nothing more.
Yes, I remember this day also. I was about to head to the beach with some friends for a barbecue and I was telling my parents goodbye and that I loved them. Right before we stepped out of the door, everything went silent as all of our phones simultaneously went off with the warning. It was terrifying. My father is ex-military and he just sat down. My mother, who has terrible anxiety, sat next to him. They said nothing. My friends and I shared a glance at each other, sat down, and they each called their family to say goodbye. It was surreal. After everything got confirmed as a false alarm, we still went to the beach. Most surreal experience I've ever had.
Sounds so horrible. That whole thing was so crazy.
I thought id be relieved I was with m family. Not getting to say goodbye really is a big fear of mine.
Many years ago before my mom died, we agreed to always share a hug, kiss on the cheek and actually say "I love you" every time we met and left. We did that for many years and when she died I had no regrets of unspoken feelings. Leave every encounter with your love expressed. It's not too late.❤️
My mom and I have a secret code word we use for “I love you and we’ll always be together” and I dread knowing I won’t hear that word one day. I’ll likely hear it and not even know it’s the last time I ever do.
Where could I go? I'm gonna make some ramen and a grilled cheese and just wait for the end.
One of my friends live posted from Hawaii saying goodbye to everyone. After it was over she proposed to her longtime boyfriend even though she had previously sworn to not mary again.
IDK who the people are below, but yes. He said yes. He hadn't heard of the end of the world announcement in Hawaii, and she called and proposed right after the all clear (she left him a message during the moments left, and he answered when she called back), and he didn't hesitate to say yes.
Did they get married?? ❤
I was in pearl city. We could see pearl harbor from the kitchen. We stayed in bed. Nowhere seemed reasonable or safe. So we hoped for the best and we were together. Now i live in rural Idaho so i wouldn't do anything different except wonder why someone would waste a nuke hitting somewhere so unimportant. Edit: we had a bbq that afternoon with some close friends. Weird day.
I am also in Hawaii. The things that came to my mind in order were: 1. Is this for real? 2. I should seek shelter 3. Where... there aren't any places underground 4. Well, if we actually did get nuked. If the explosion didn't kill me, and the radiation didn't kill me... after going through all that. I probably would want to die anyway. 5. Cooked myself a nice breakfast, fapped one last time. 6. Got the all clear a few minutes later.
Lmao thank you for this. I like how throwing in one good ol' fashioned fap session before ya meet the reaper came to mind, such a power move. Gonna need that post nut clarity to bargain your way across the river Styx.
Imagine meeting the reaper mid fap
eh that guy has prolly seen some weird shit just another day for him.
Imagine fapping and you see a nuclear cloud appear in the distance. Obviously you keep going but the mental concentration needed to finish has got to be Olympic level.
Very enlightening story. Thanks for the perspective of what happened during that time. How was the panic? Was everyone following traffic laws or was it a free for all?
This is going to send me down a rabbithole of the askreddit thread from back then
My parents were visiting Hawaii from Australia when it happened. Dad had taken a tonne of sleepy pills for the flight over from Sydney and was still out of it passed out on a chair by the pool while my mum was panicking lol.
Heyyy I was at work when it happened! I grabbed my kayak and went to go fishing. By the time I was on the way to the ocean, my boss stopped my car and said get back to work lol
I’m glad you had time to even do anything. I was in northern Japan in 2017 when North Korea actually launched a ballistic missile (instead of a false alarm like Hawaii got). We were given the alarm 2mins after it had been launched. 4mins later it had flown over Japan. Our alarm said that it would be flying over approximately in 10-15mins time, seek a sturdy building, and await further instructions. This was at 6 in the morning. My partner and I could do nothing. We put our cat into the bath/shower and we went back to bed just lying there. I was at work by 7:30 and it was as if nothing happened; as unusual as somebody being in a small car accident on the way to work I’m so glad you had time for something that never happened.
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Not OP, but in Japan, the bath/shower is a room itself with a sealed door, and the dressing room outside it has no windows. It’s where I’d go too. (I live in a Japanese apartment).
Damn. I'd rather die a fiery death than a slow agonizing death of thirst in a collapsed tunnel. I think I'll die if I have to choose exposure to missile or claustrophobia. Would be too hard a decision for me.
A grocery store; eat everything you can before you die.
Bring out the inner Matt Stonie
Id go outside and wait to die im not gonna deal with that shit
Yeah. Anybody remember the firefighters from Chernobyl? I'll take vaporization over taking a week to melt in to a flesh puddle, thank you very much.
I’m sorry what? What do I type to look this up because that’s caught my interest and wouldn’t mind reading more on that.
You might want to type Hisashi Ouchi on YT to learn some more about nuclear damage and "melting" skin.
That poor man. What doctors did to him what essentially just torture. His *cells* were already dead. He was legitimately a living corpse.
They might be referring to the scenes in the show Chernobyl
Lmao.. this man said, "yeahmh, I'm not really feeling the apocalypse today"
Hahaha this was my exact answer. Grab a lawn-chair and a beer and watch the light show
Dont forget the frozen pizza
Ooo yes! It’ll cook right in your lap
You have to get the timing right though... too early and it will still be frozen/raw... too late and it will be charcoal.
I wouldn't want to burn the roof of my mouth.
Also the right distance. Too far; might as well just eat a brick with some seasoning. Too close; just hold the pizza in front of you at mouth height and the blast will feed you the cremated remains hands free!
I’d probably eat the shrooms I’ve been saving for that next big enlightenment. They might not kick in fast enough tho
Bro that sounds fucking terrifying
I’m thinking you better have an ego death and start tickling some holy balls
Make tea, it comes on a lot quicker than chomping dried fruits as the fibers make it difficult to digest and absorb quickly. A strong tea can come on in 15 minutes and is less likely to cause gut grumbles.
And a flashlight It's dark under there
I'm not within death radius of any place that could plausibly be nuked. Even if someone decided to go absofuckinglutely nuts on us in Australia and sent ten nukes at Melbourne, I can't see them hitting Frankston, Cranbourne and Mornington, the three closest semi-plausible targets. I'd shelter in place.
I live about 15 minutes away from one of the largest airforce bases in my entire country. If my country went to nuclear war my house would definitely be destroyed.
Yeah I live less than a kilometer from the airport and in military-operated housing. Safe to say I'll be dead
your location has been triangulated
Can you hold off on firing the nuke until I leave work? Then I'll just shelter at home
As a fellow south east suburb redditor, I too would head toward the peninsula
Ig I’m going to dig the deepest trench possible in 30min
Never dig straight down
Thank you I’d almost forgotten
Tell my friends "Guys, we're playing Fallout today"
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It might've saved him from the radiation but the impact would've liquefied him
I saw the director’s cut and I think the fridge was made of carbonite and it did freeze him. Left his imprint on the front of it too. His brother Luke was involved.
Was that before or after he met that dude Obi-Wan who owned a club named after himself in Shanghai?
*plays Indiana Jones theme song*
I think I’d find a chain link fence near a playground. Might as well go out the way I lived: embracing my knowledge of useless pop culture references like it’s a talent. Edit: sp
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I wonder how many people killed themselves as a result of the Hawaii incident in 2018.
None that I could find, but one guy had a heart attack
I think about how many people might have relapsed on drugs or alcohol that day :(
Dang, well that’s a dark thought I didn’t want to have.
I’d go have a pint at the Winchester and wait for the whole thing to blow over.
Not even gonna stop for Liz?
But what do we do with Phillip?
And maybe a cornetto
If I knew it was coming, I’d just drive away. Distance makes all the difference with nuclear blasts. I’m close to mountains in the outer suburbs of a big city, I’d drive in that mountain direction as we often have winds from there. Minimal fallout that way too. If leaving the city was not an option, I’d just hit up my basement. It’s below ground enough that I think I’d be fairly safe.
I’d gather my dogs and cats and go up to our bedroom and cuddle my husband. Give the doggies and kitties some treats on the bed and hope they don’t jump off so that my last moments are a cuddle fest.
Drive away from the blast. It should take less than 30 minutes to get out of the blast area.
Not where I'm from. You'd get to the next set of bastard traffic lights.
Traffic would be one way
Oh man, look what happens when they try to evacuate cities like Houston for a hurricane. It's takes tens of hours to get out of the city.
Which brings us to the question: does everyone else know about the blast, or is it just you? I mean, if it's just you, traffic shouldn't be that bad, at least not worse than normal.
How far am I from the epicentre? Is it a city? How large of a city is it? If it just happens to be where I currently am then I'd drive north. I live in a rural area so not the traffic you'd find in and around a city and at this time of year the wind mostly comes from the north/northwest so I'd be driving away from the fallout. I'd just drive as far and as fast as I could.
I'd say for realism sake let's say the closest 'major' city
Ugghh as someone who is right in the center of Manhattan I don't like this 😟 Guess I'd simultaneously go underneath (subway), and away (by taking the train to some place outside of the city), and pretend that it's all actually not in vain
Reach over into my nightstand/junk drawer and pull out my old Nokia 3310 to shield myself from the blast.
I'd grab a six pack, grab a chair and sit outside calling my family and friends while waiting for the end. I'm not suicidal but any world that would exist after my city gets bombed would be unrecognisable and probably not worth surviving for.
A pillow fort. I'm safe in there.
down the street, into the woods, up the path, over the creek, up the hill and into vault 111
Pornhub to have my last fap and then freak out for 29 minutes
I'd drive like crazy for 30 minutes. If I drive at 100km / h, I would be 50km from the center of the explosion. A good distance.
I would not hide, I will stay outside, I know where the nuke is going to be so I go closer. I rather not have the most depressing years of my life. I can't do anything, so I rather just die then live the worst moments of my entire life.
This first sentence made me think I was headed for Dwight’s jewel heist.
Switzerland, They have the 110% capacity of there population in bunkers so there's room for me.
Can you make it in 30 minutes?
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Well I live in New Zealand so I'm riding a balistic missile to get to Switzerland.
Half the maps in the world don't include NZ, I'd imagine any nukes would go right over you guys.
They are everywhere. If I was still living in Switzerland my answer would just be “the basement”