Driving by ground zeros near you....

[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

[Raellus]

I live about two miles from an old Titan missile silo. It's not on the T2K target list, but I wonder if during one of the myriad Cold War retaskings, maybe the Russians overlooked somehow it and it's still got an ICBM aimed at it...

[stg58fal]

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. The nearest target to me is Malstom AFB, at 200+ miles I think. And on the other side of several mountain ranges.

[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.