Scenario, Day 1, hour 1, Minute 1

[MJRW]

Hide pudding. Rosie O'Donnel is nearby and she just fell.

Someone called for an exterminator?

 

[Augustwest]

Take a couple iodine tablets, throw pets, guns and sundry prepackaged gear into Jeep, swing by mom and dad's on my way a few hours north to the predetermined meeting place my wife and I have.

 

[Smoke]

Jump in the pickup with my brother and some friends. Drive out of town to old gas station where the owner gives me all the food, guns and ammo I can haul as well as his two granddaughters to protect before I head into the hills and start guerilla operations.

 

[eatatjoes]

Jump in the pickup with my brother and some friends. Drive out of town to old gas station where the owner gives me all the food, guns and ammo I can haul as well as his two granddaughters to protect before I head into the hills and start guerilla operations.

if only.

WOLVERINES!

little bit of lever action i see.

 

[Gordon Fink]

I knew the G. W. Bush administration should have spent more time worrying about North Korea, instead of trumping up a war against Iraq!

~G. Fink

 

[jercamp45]

Good responses......Now Part 2

Well, AFTER I change my undies,
I'll strap on a pair of 45's autos by Colt(gun comment here!), give thanks that I bought plastic sheets and duct tape and went through bomb drills in 3rd grade, start filling the bathtubs and every pot in the house with water, seal my windows(for those that run to the woods....ever heard of Fallout?), make sure all the 'camping gear' is inside the defensive perimeter(car probably won't work...so might as well save the gas for improvised munitions), pull spare radio out of kit and put battery in it, turn it on later for brief period for more info......fix up whatever is in the fridge that will spoil soonest to have a really good dinner with that bottle of wine I have been saving for the cutie that never showed up, load all my mags(and wish I had more), see how much ammo and how many guns I have at that moment( and wish I had more). Load up every impliment in the house.
Go to the most insulated room, insulate it more...that will be my cave. Organize a 'hit and git' pack with several layers of easy to remove outer wear to be discarded at intervals to slow radiation poisoning...IF an uncontrolled fire means I have to beat feet on the mountain bike(gauze mouth cover to keep fallout out of lungs).
If it is an airburst, there will be less fall out. If ground burst, it'll be awhile before I emerge from my hidey hole. So I'll have time to boobytrap my doors and windows....reread everything I have on survival, nuclear war and messing folks up.
All the while pondering who we are at war with......this week. Might be China, N. Korea, a militant Russian group, Islamic fanatics that got access to one bomb and somehow got it here. These things all are important info as is what was struck, how large was the bomb, what is the wind direction. Each piece of info will flesh out the puzzle...is the calamity widespread....or isolated.
JC45

 

[Frohickey]

I knew the G. W. Bush administration should have spent more time worrying about North Korea, instead of trumping up a war against Iraq!

Yeah, but they kept claiming that with the Long Dong IV missile, Kim Jong (I'm gonna be) Il can only hit Alaska and the west coast.

 

[jercamp45]

oh, yeah.....

if it turns out to be China...there is a former head of state and his wife that will be at the head of my 'better dead' list for traitorious activities!
Charges: Selling state nuclear secrets to a foreign power and fixing their friggin' rockets with US Air Force personnel!
JC45

 

[Tommy Gunn]

You try your battery powered radio. It works. Distant News stations are saying a backpack type device of unknown yeild has detonated in a downtown high rise, about the 15th floor. According to unsubstantiated reports there is massive damage to the downtown district. Several dozen city center buildings are essentially gone. The immediate surrounding area is in flames, and dead and dying are estimated in millions. The area outside the immediate downtown is relatively unaffected. As close as 5 miles from ground zero there are almost no physical effects. News anchors are speculating that the city highrises sheilded the blast helping to limit the effects to the immediate area. The Department of Homeland security has quarantined the entire region, and the National guard has been mobilized to enforce the quarantine. People are being urged to remain at home, and not panic. The President will address the nation in 1 hour.


Respond.

 

[TallPine]

People are being urged to remain at home, and not panic. The President will address the nation in 1 hour.

Maybe I better hide that deer carcass.

 

[Voodoo]

Turn on the scanner or ham radio.

Call family (about two hours away) to see if anything is going on in their neck of the woods.

Check with the neighbors next door.

Break out the M1A!

 

[jercamp45]

Hahaha..Tall Pine...Premature Poaching again, are we?

Ok, so I sit and wait.....cleaning my firearms, wondering if they'll extend the maximum enlistment age.....I can push papers, drive a truck, teach young bucks the fine art of doing unto other's..BUT first, man a guard post and WOW the female armed forces personnel with my mature wisdom(Uh, oh...here comes the bald old fart! Look busy!!).
Waiting for what every Marine needs to perform his mission........
A TARGET!!!!!

Locate, Close With, Destroy!
JC45
Warped Ancient Grunt

 

[Navy joe]

As per third update, drink beer, read book, don't go downtown.

 

[Hawkeye755]

Start cussing because it looks like I am in for a lot of overtime.

 

[sm]

Please, Please, tell me it was the High Rise next to the Klinton Library
Keep telling you you folks we don't want it here

I'm finally gonna get to use all that stuff I learned growing up and in grade school about Civil Defence. Except Firearms (Correias benefit) will play more of a role.

Always wondered why they stopped teaching that, and the yellow and black signs were taken down. I guess the gummit really doesn't want to protect me, just itself. Oh that's right the gummit wants to control me...

 

[Gordon Fink]

Distant News stations are saying a backpack type device of unknown yeild has detonated in a downtown high rise, about the 15th floor.…

Wonder why I heard an air-raid siren. Assume government disinformation campaign of one sort or another. Prepare for martial law, fascism, purges, pogroms, etc.

~G. Fink

 

[12-34hom]

I'd know right then and there...

I've watched the Matrix waaaay too many times...

12-34hom.

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Wonder why I heard an air-raid siren.

I noticed that too. Also, why would they quarentine a nuclear blast area? The only health threat of a nuclear explosion (other than the blast) is fallout, right? Radiation poisoning isn't contageous.

I don't mean to insult Tommy Gunn's scenario here. (I rather appreciate it. Role playing and "what-if" scenarios have always been something I enjoy) If these are honest mistakes, I apologize.

However, if this were happening in real life, I'd be a bit worried. Something doesn't add up here. I'm not sure what it is, exaclty, but I'd definitely want to be on the far side of that "quarentine". If I learned of this soon enough, I could probably just out-run any atempt to put up a blockade. Otherwise, I imagine that I would have to leave the truck somewhere and attempt to slip through on foot. Once free, perhaps I could contact some out-of-town relatives and ask for a pick up. Baring that, I suppose I could liberate a new vehicle and continue on away from the blast area. Maybe now would be a good time for that crazy trip to the Hudson Bay...

 

[joeislove]

Am I the only one who would grab my AK, head for the street, and start randomly firing in all directions?

 

[ksnecktieman]

Turn on all information systems, am radio, fm radio, tv, police scanner. Strap on holster and service pistol. install clips into sks and M1 carbine, stand one at each door. Move car into garage and proceed to load all firearms, all ammunition, and all canned goods into trunk for immediate evacuation. Follow with clothing suitable for extended exposure under present weather conditions. Attempt communication with family and friends to determine if they have need of my help.

Now it is time to wait and see if this is a local or widespread attack.

 

[Smoke]

From the 2nd Post:

You see a flash, as if lightning had struck nearby, and hear a rumble, like thunder. Within 20 seconds a shock wave hits your house. Several windows break, and a few things fall from shelves, but overall very little damage.

and from the last update:

News stations are saying a backpack type device of unknown yeild has detonated in a downtown high rise, about the 15th floor. According to unsubstantiated reports there is massive damage to the downtown district. Several dozen city center buildings are essentially gone. The immediate surrounding area is in flames, and dead and dying are estimated in millions.

Now I am worried, if I saw the flash and felt the shockwave from a blast that took out a building with at least 15 stories; that would have happened over 90 miles away. I think more than downtown would have been destroyed.

If we stick to the last post literally and disregard the 2nd due to distance, I think I'll gather up the family and start making plans. It might still be awhile before the effects are felt out here in the sticks.

Country life has many advantages.

Smoke

 

[winstonsmith]

Break out SHTF/Earthquake kit. If danger of radiation poisoning isnt too great, go check on some buddies in the neighborhood. If they aren't as well prepared, then advise/give them supplies. Stay with parents and older brother in house. (I'm 15). When evening comes, steal a beer and watch the nuclear sun set in the pacific ocean.

If I wasn't tied down to my family, I'd probably check on my buds in the neighborhood, get my BOB, and do the bike boogie on down to a town a few hundred miles south where some relatives live. If I could escape the seemingly uneeded quarantine, that is.

Anybody else not find anything wrong with the looting of foodstuffs and survival equipment when it is absolutely necessary?

Cheers.

 

[Horsesense]

Yous guys need to get underground or out of Dodge ASAP!

Are you down wind? Assume fallout is headed your way and get underground. If you seen the flash and felt the shock 20 seconds later, you wouldn't have much time to bug out. If you do bug out, head cross directional against the prevailing wind.

You do have your Iodine (for radiation sickness, not water purification) don’t you? You can survive but you will need to stay underground until the radiation levels drop, that’s why you need water & food for the family. I don’t remember the time span. It’s something like a matter of weeks until the relay bad radiation dissipates…I need to print out all that stuff…just in case. Guns? Just a tool for the looters, you cant shoot radiation.

 

[Horsesense]

"Anybody else not find anything wrong with the looting of foodstuffs and survival equipment when it is absolutely necessary?"

Never say never. Most men will do unthinkable things to provide for their family. Make your provisions to provide for and defend your loved-ones now so you won't have to become a thief. I happen to believe that I will answer to my creator for the deeds done in this life and planing to steal what I need is more than I want to answer fore.

 

[El Tejon]

Downtown's out? So I can't go to the office?

Hmmm, sign up for gun skul class, book flight, bring cell phone and laptop.