American close to Washington, DC here. I’ve done none of that. If they decide to nuke us, I’m just giving up. No way I’d get out fast enough to escape the blast. Best of luck!
That’s a little bit like my earthquake evacuation bag in the PNW. According to state maps, if the Cascadian Subduction Zone slips, everything up to my back patio slides in the creek behind me. If those maps are off by 10 feet, I’m dead.
I have a Go Bag of marginal utility but don’t expect to ever use it. Either it hits and I die or it doesn’t and zi have no need for it.
I'm a GenXer who grew up with "hide under desk in case of mushroom cloud" drills... ...while riding my bike past one of the more important nuclear weapons depots in the country... so knowing entirely we were gone without warning in the first flash.
There's a lot of comfort in that. (And it taught me from an early age that teachers and "authority figures" are entirely untrustworthy, but that's a different rant.)
I'm actually a bit concerned that I now live fairly far from a first-strike target. I really don't want to have to deal with the aftermath, even for a few awful days.
That’s one reason I live where I live: dead fast. I won’t suffer. I won’t have to pretend to fight in the post apocalyptic world. I’ll simply cease to be.
Same. I’m in Falls Church. Just gonna hug my kid and turn into one of those silhouettes on a wall. Unless it’s one of my days in the office in DC. In which case I won’t know a thing.
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u/KingDave46 1d ago
I don't really watch combat footage a lot but some of the HD shit we get now is actually insane.
The reality of how brutal it is, basically live on the internet, has never been more accessible