Meh. I can still doom scroll in that time. Best use of my time I tell you.

Immediately get in my car and drive like a bat out of hell out of my city. It’s small but it’s for sure a nuclear target

Make sure my phone was actually on silent, put ear plugs in and go back to sleep. I’m too fucking tired to try and survive anything more.

Ah just dump all my cat’s treats in her bowl and probably go lie down.

This is how this situation was depicted in a made for TV movie on NBC. https://youtu.be/n28NoLNarNs

I’d be setting off the pair of sirens I own, then awaiting the inevitable. Thankfully I live in an area where the chance of being vaporized is quite high.

I am “lucky” enough to live within a few miles of a place I’m pretty sure would be a ground zero in an all out nuclear attack. I live in a university town. And the university I attend has a nuclear engineering program along with an accompanying research reactor. In any all-out nuclear exchange, anything related to nuclear technology is at the top of the target list. A facility that trains new nuclear engineers is definitely on the target list. We’ve actually talked about this. If we get this message, our plan is to round up the cats, throw then in the car, grab every mind altering substance we can get our hands on, and go get wasted outside the front gate of the reactor building. We won’t try to break into the building or anything; the alert could always be in error and we don’t need a felony for trying to break into a nuclear facility on our records. But when hydrogen bombs are involved, the front gate of the reactor building is close enough to ground zero to do the job.

Sorry, but there are indeed fates worse than death. For one, we would be unlikely to survive the initial bombing anyway. But most people have this idea that you’ll get vaporized by a bomb. That’s not how these things actually work. If you’re killed in the first hour by the bomb, odds are it will be from being slowly cooked alive in the burning collapsed remnants of your own home. And sure, we could drive out into the country, but that would only ensure that we would die slowly from fallout induced radiation sickness, slow starvation after the complete collapse of all supply chains, or worse.

Trust me. If that alert comes, the ones close enough to ground zero to be atomized will be the lucky ones. This is something that you do not want to survive. I would encourage anyone that if they ever get that alert, to try to travel as close to whatever you think is your most likely ground zero as possible. You’ll be doing yourself and your loved ones a favor. Unless you’re already an off-grid survivalist type living in a self-sufficient compound way outside of any blast or fallout zone, all you’re doing by escaping the blasts is stretching out your own misery. Do you and yours a favor by making it quick and painless.

On another note, Happy New Year!

If you’re my family, sleep through it while I frantically close windows because I didn’t know what else to do. Most Hawaii homes have no basements usually, so its kind of just fucked

Seek immediate shelter, probably. And wonder why someone would send a ballistic missile to New Hampshire.

Double it and give it to the next person

Oh! Oh! I have an answer for this. I remember around the time that The Day After aired, one of the local news stations ran a story simulating what would happen to my city were it hit by an ICBM. We lived on the far side of a hill, far enough away from downtown for it to be potentially survivable. I decided that if we got the warning, I’d grab my bike and light out for ground zero. Fuck surviving, I don’t wanna take the chance of being alive but horribly injured, and that aftermath shit just wasn’t worth it.

Oh, so if you ever wonder why Gen X/Xennials are so fucked up, there ya go.

I’m going to get some beer and weed and enjoy the rest of my day.

I will do the following:

Duck and cover

I’d either go take a nap, or go hide in my basement. Not sure which.