(January 14, 2018 at 12:09 am)Tres Leches Wrote:(January 13, 2018 at 7:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote: At any rate, at least they know that people read the civil defense tweets!
From what I saw on the news, it was a push notification sent to cell phones.
I got to wondering what the hell I would do if Trump causes a nuclear attack on the west coast. Some people in Hawaii sheltered in their garages. But what good will that do in a mushroom cloud? And if you survive, then what? Scrounge for seed corn until you die a miserable death from radiation poisoning?
-Teresa
Nah, the point of sheltering with soft cover is protection against alpha particles and fallout for those who are far enough from ground zero that the blast is not the primary hazard.