Where it caught them was at Grandma's or their cousins or their parents place - i.e. wherever they had traveled for the holiday. So now you have a huge fraction of the US population - perhaps as high as 25 percent or more - not at home, possibly several hundred miles away, all trying to get home after a nuclear attack, many of them with fried electrical systems in their cars preventing them from starting.
Or caught out on the road, either shopping or going back home and in monumental traffic jams caused by the strikes.
In our game when we did Allegheny Uprising we found a huge traffic jam of nuked cars sitting on the 81 west of Harrisburg that got nuked when the Soviets took out the Army War College with a 100kt nuke as part of the Massacre.
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