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Eugene K. Chow, The Week: How to ride out the apocalypse in a big city
Thanks to wildfires, hurricanes, and certain leaders trading threats of nuclear annihilation over Twitter, you've probably been thinking a lot about disasters recently — specifically how not to perish in one.
And if you live in a city, this kind of thinking can be extra fraught. It's easy enough for doomsday preppers living in the woods to head for bunkers filled with canned food, but how are you supposed to get out of dodge when you don't even own a car?
Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, there are no realistic scenarios that would require a sudden, mass evacuation of an entire city.
Nuclear attack? I hate to break it to you, but nuclear-tipped ICBMs travel far too quickly to give anyone time to flee before all are incinerated in hellfire. Dirty bomb? Conventional explosives combined with radioactive material would not release enough radiation to kill anyone or cause severe illness.
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WNU Editor: I keep at least a month of water and dry or canned food at all of my homes to take care of 4 people. And if there is an expectation of a nuclear war or a cataclysmic event .... in Canada I would head to my chalet in the woods to ride it out (generator, wood, and propane is a must), and in Russia, same thing .... I would head to my parent's dacha west of Moscow.
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"all of your homes?" Most of us don't have the wherewithal to have multiple homes in multiple countries that we could escape to. While I'm an advocate of good disaster preparedness, it would be better to insure our survival by working to create the conditions by which the man made disasters won't happen and the effects of natural disasters are mitigated to the maximum degree that science and technology allows us. Afterall, what right does any one of us have to insure our own survival while letting those who are less well off die? What's the point of living like that?
Carl,
I sacrificed a lot for what I have, and it has been very costly. No free rides here.
No one is "riding out" a nuclear war. Certainly not with a month of canned food.
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