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brin_bellway[cw: war, apocalypse]
[Effective Altruism Forum; Wayback] (by Finan Adamson; in response to abukeki)
I'm amused that the top-rated comment on this nuclear-preparedness-101 guide *specifically* name-drops Kitchener as a good place to live if you are concerned about getting nuked but want to stay in the North American Anglosphere.
Which, yeah, that's pretty much the conclusion I've come to (except even more so because I live outside of Kitchener proper). It's a safe bet that, even conditional on a major nuclear war *happening*, nobody is going to bother nuking *me*. In my situation, I can essentially treat nuclear war as a generic blow to civilisation, apart from spending the first couple days in my basement waiting for the fallout plume from Detroit to dissipate. (We are far enough away from and indirectly enough downwind of Detroit that my basement should be sufficient as-is, though of course if we have the time we'll pile some bags of dirt in front of the basement windows, and of course I *would* like to do some strengthening of the sheltering power of my basement against tornadoes (much of which would also make it a better fallout shelter as a side effect).)
(I mean, there *is* the possibility they'll go after the electrical grid, but LBR I already think about electrical-grid fragility all of the time.)
[Effective Altruism Forum; Wayback] (by Finan Adamson; in response to abukeki)
I'm amused that the top-rated comment on this nuclear-preparedness-101 guide *specifically* name-drops Kitchener as a good place to live if you are concerned about getting nuked but want to stay in the North American Anglosphere.
Which, yeah, that's pretty much the conclusion I've come to (except even more so because I live outside of Kitchener proper). It's a safe bet that, even conditional on a major nuclear war *happening*, nobody is going to bother nuking *me*. In my situation, I can essentially treat nuclear war as a generic blow to civilisation, apart from spending the first couple days in my basement waiting for the fallout plume from Detroit to dissipate. (We are far enough away from and indirectly enough downwind of Detroit that my basement should be sufficient as-is, though of course if we have the time we'll pile some bags of dirt in front of the basement windows, and of course I *would* like to do some strengthening of the sheltering power of my basement against tornadoes (much of which would also make it a better fallout shelter as a side effect).)
(I mean, there *is* the possibility they'll go after the electrical grid, but LBR I already think about electrical-grid fragility all of the time.)
