Driving by ground zeros near you....

[TrailerParkJawa]

Yesterday, I drove up from San Jose to hang out in Sausalito. As I was driving on 580 I passed through Richmond. This place gets nuked in T2K. As I crossed the Richmond brigdge I couldnt help but think about a blinding flash of white followed but either being vaporized or possibly blown off the bridge only to crash into the bay and drown trapped in my car. Or at least that this place is totally gone in the world of T2K.

Do any of you live near or regularly drive by the ground zeros?
If so , do you ever think about the game world or just go about your business?

[Targan]

Many times I've looked to the South-West from where I live and ponder the very flat terrain and how far the blast wave and resulting fires would travel from Kwinana and the HMAS Stirling Naval Base.

I wouldn't be in danger of being incinerated but I'd have a very clear view (until my retinas burned out) of the flash and the mushroom cloud. Grim ponderings.

[Panther Al]

*hehs*

I'm living half a mile from Ft. Detrick. I won't even see the flash.

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

*hehs*

I'm living half a mile from Ft. Detrick. I won't even see the flash.

If you're out of town for the holiday, you could always come back to the breached class-4 labs at the "Cancer Research Center" Assuming you weren't in Catoctin Mtn park instead. Odd that Raven Rock, just a few miles up the road, wasn't hit.

[pmulcahy11b]

I can see Lackland and Kelly from my back porch. I might escape a lot of the rads if I'm in my house, but then the shock wave winds would probably blow my house (and most of Heritage Northwest, my housing development) and scatter it to the winds.

You know, sometimes, like this sort of thing, I get rudely reminded about how TX DPS won't allow me to own a firearm...

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

You know, sometimes, like this sort of thing, I get rudely reminded about how TX DPS won't allow me to own a firearm...

Some planning, knowledge of trap setting, a strong arm, a strong will and something solid you can swing with a bit of reach, you can have yourself a firearm once the fertiliser hits the ventilation. You just have to be committed and have no regard for the health of the firearm's previous owner

[WallShadow]

Crossing the Delaware River on the Walt Whitman Bridge, you can just imagine the wide glassy parking lots where buildings, refineries, shipyards, and people used to be, as far as the eye can see.

[Snake Eyes]

Originally Posted by Webstral

I drive by the Richmond petroleum facilities on a regular basis. I drive by the other ones on the list periodically. I think about the radiation, heat, and shock wave crossing the Bay and hitting southern Marin. Mill Valley is shielded by Tiburon and Belvedere, provided the blast epicenter is suitably low for hitting the Richmond site.

After the watching the aftermath of the Chevron explosion last month, it is not much of a stretch to extrapolate mushroom clouds over Richmond, Rodeo, Crockett and Martinez. I'm well over the hills to the east, but any sufficient destruction in that area would make life plenty miserable here for quite some time.

[Tombot]

I recently made a map of the T2k-Netherlands and the Zone Morte, in which i would have died (if the game-history would be gruesome reality)... cause i live in the german part of the zone (cologne).

I would stick up my burned middlefinger to the west (for every french helicopter which could possibly pass over the flattened landscape around my corpse).


PS: When i visitied Krakow a while ago, none of my T2k-gaming-buddys was around. Sad.
My other pals did´nt quite get my enthusiasm (i guess i behaved like a 6 year old on his way to f...ng disneyworld!).

[TrailerParkJawa]

Originally Posted by Snake Eyes

After the watching the aftermath of the Chevron explosion last month, it is not much of a stretch to extrapolate mushroom clouds over Richmond, Rodeo, Crockett and Martinez. I'm well over the hills to the east, but any sufficient destruction in that area would make life plenty miserable here for quite some time.

I'm not certain if I would be able to see the clouds from SJ. I think so, especially where I live now, but in 1997 I lived in a different part of SJ and think my view would have been blocked by Mission Peak.

I most certainly would not want to be in Walnut Creek. Or anywhere else in Contra Costa county.

On a side note, I visited Mill Valley for the very first time on Sunday. Pretty nice, lots of old buildings.