New York PSA For Nuclear Strike

[Straight Shooter]

I'm sorry..this can't be serious. It has to be a joke or the stupid just run waaaay higher than anyone thought possible.
A nuclear strike on NYC is basically an apocalyptic event in the rest of the country, it will be an every man for himself, protect your family, hunker down and hope the next one isn't near your home town. Doubt any one is going to work or showing up for the hospital, fire, electric company, LE shift. Read 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy just to get a hint.

I bet they are 100% serious. What do most people know about anything anymore outside of a cell phone or social media? Especially the 30 & under bunch. Theyll be twerkin & takin selfies & wondering about the Kardashians as missles fall.
They literally dont even know that possibility exists in the book you mentioned..or my fav One Second After. They think its a movie. They wouldnt have two days of supplies on them.

[Backfire]

Some of us already knew

You even spell corrected the quote, thank you sir.

[Diamondback]

62 was no joke. My grandfather built a fallout shelter, having been in the AAC he had some understanding of what people were actually talking about. He was definitely concerned. The Cuban Missile Crisis could have went hot a hundred different ways.

Early 80s was no joke, we worried about War Games and The Day After, but had no idea how close we came in 1983 with Abel Archer. That there isn't a statue of Stanislav Petrov anywhere is criminal, he is literally the ONE GUY who realized "this is a mistake" and deliberately did NOT do what he was supposed to do and almost certainly prevented a full scale exchange with the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Most people today don't realize we came that close.

Indeed. That man should have been awarded both a Gold Star and a DSC for singlehandedly preventing WWIII.

[SteyrAUG]

IThey wouldnt have two days of supplies on them.

Hell even in South Florida, where there is a hurricane season every year, I was constantly amazed by people who didn't have more than two days of food on hand. We went three weeks one time with no power and it was almost 10 days before somebody got a gas station up and running to feed generators. I had a month plus or so of emergency food (MRE's and such) and I was shocked by how many people had zip after a few days.

Even more shocking was how many people still weren't prepared when we got the power knocked out the following year by a hurricane. They literally learned NOTHING. Six cars in the driveway but no f'ing food. Unreal. There were maybe three houses in a four block radius that were actually self sustaining after a storm. Everyone else was in the middle of the road the next day asking everyone else what they think they should do.

I moved my grill to the driveway so the neighbors (who had kids) and I could do things and make it seem like a cookout rather than an emergency and not stress the kids so hard. So there we are sitting in lawn chairs grilling hot dogs and I swear to christ people start walking up the driveway thinking it was some kind of neighborhood "free food" event. I had to actually get extra rude with a few shitheads who started giving me crap about letting them go hungry while I had a pan "full of hotdogs."

Every day was an exercise in self control and not pounding the shit out of some entitlement asshole who feels you somehow owe him "free food" because you actually planned ahead while he bought a bass system for his car that could be heard for 1/3 of a mile.

[Straight Shooter]

Hell even in South Florida, where there is a hurricane season every year, I was constantly amazed by people who didn't have more than two days of food on hand. We went three weeks one time with no power and it was almost 10 days before somebody got a gas station up and running to feed generators. I had a month plus or so of emergency food (MRE's and such) and I was shocked by how many people had zip after a few days.

Even more shocking was how many people still weren't prepared when we got the power knocked out the following year by a hurricane. They literally learned NOTHING. Six cars in the driveway but no f'ing food. Unreal. There were maybe three houses in a four block radius that were actually self sustaining after a storm. Everyone else was in the middle of the road the next day asking everyone else what they think they should do.

I moved my grill to the driveway so the neighbors (who had kids) and I could do things and make it seem like a cookout rather than an emergency and not stress the kids so hard. So there we are sitting in lawn chairs grilling hot dogs and I swear to christ people start walking up the driveway thinking it was some kind of neighborhood "free food" event. I had to actually get extra rude with a few shitheads who started giving me crap about letting them go hungry while I had a pan "full of hotdogs."

Every day was an exercise in self control and not pounding the shit out of some entitlement asshole who feels you somehow owe him "free food" because you actually planned ahead while he bought a bass system for his car that could be heard for 1/3 of a mile.

See, youre bringing up stuff that Im preaching NOW to people close to me- had a conversation yesterday about this subject, having to defend what youve got, and eventually not being able to "help" anyone should something bad go into long term.
Why people in hurricane country dont have pre-cut panels for each window..a stash of supplies ready & fresh at the start of each hurricane season Ive NEVER understood.
My friend I just talked to in Oklahoma..when he built his house a few years back..FIRST THING built was the tornado shelter. Smart I told him.
Except for just a few- I advise nobody on nothing anymore. NOBODY CARES-furthermore nobody thinks anything "bad" is REALLY gonna happen. And my sweet Lord I wish them to be right. But they just arent. And Im prepping my extended family NOW..telling them I DONT have guns, ammo, food, water, water filters, lightings, ect to give them should something happen. STOP going to "the beach" & Disneyland every time I turn around and start getting ready for hard times. They just WONT.
Your experience with the "free food" crowd reminded me of the well known saying "We are only 9 meals from anarchy". What if they hadnt eaten in several days? Or a week or more?
The level of "persuasion" you would have had to use would be greatly amplified, you think?

[Straight Shooter]

We were cleaning my grandparents home after hurricane Rita and I came across a Walther PP with a magazine full of corroded ammo in it. Asked gramps about it and he paused for a second and then said it was to put everyone down in the event missiles started hitting the gulf coast area. He traded his brother his only shotgun for the pistol.
I asked if everyone was that scared during the CMC, and his answer was a solid yes. Damn, I miss that old man.RIP

That man had some STONES.

[SteyrAUG]

See, youre bringing up stuff that Im preaching NOW to people close to me- had a conversation yesterday about this subject, having to defend what youve got, and eventually not being able to "help" anyone should something bad go into long term.
Why people in hurricane country dont have pre-cut panels for each window..a stash of supplies ready & fresh at the start of each hurricane season Ive NEVER understood.
My friend I just talked to in Oklahoma..when he built his house a few years back..FIRST THING built was the tornado shelter. Smart I told him.
Except for just a few- I advise nobody on nothing anymore. NOBODY CARES-furthermore nobody thinks anything "bad" is REALLY gonna happen. And my sweet Lord I wish them to be right. But they just arent. And Im prepping my extended family NOW..telling them I DONT have guns, ammo, food, water, water filters, lightings, ect to give them should something happen. STOP going to "the beach" & Disneyland every time I turn around and start getting ready for hard times. They just WONT.
Your experience with the "free food" crowd reminded me of the well known saying "We are only 9 meals from anarchy". What if they hadnt eaten in several days? Or a week or more?
The level of "persuasion" you would have had to use would be greatly amplified, you think?

The only good news is they have less ammo than food. If it all fell down, I already arrived at the fact that some preemptive shooting was going to happen.

[Jellybean]

They are really itching for an "event" aren't they....

Didn’t watch video, but the “follow media” bullet point almost made me shoot beer out my nose.

"You got this!"





No, ain't nobody 'got this'.

[SteyrAUG]

They are really itching for an "event" aren't they....



"You got this!"





No, ain't nobody 'got this'.

Yeah, but with my Level IIIA plates I'm pretty good to go right?

[Averageman]

I don't know what to say having watched about half of that cartoon reenactment of a nuclear bomb, I'm just...
I don't know of it was the cartoon or the voice, but I just don't think a lot of people "Get It".
It's not going to be one bomb, it's going to be bomb, rinse, repeat for hours and perhaps days.
Nobody's coming your just going to kind of melt in to the same primordial goo we emerged from.