Comments | kudagirl: Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye

kudagirl

Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye

Aug 04, 2009 09:55

As a kid, I read a book about Nuclear War. The USA was bombed and Texas
was a major target. There are lots of military bases located in a grid around
my part of TX and surrounding states. So Dallas was pretty much wiped off
the face of the Earth.

I grew up with the Cold War so we had bomb shelters and lots of scary movies
about it. I watched the ( Read more... )

texas, quiz

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rivertempest August 4 2009, 15:47:27 UTC

I did the test and my city will be growing mutants within hours of a blast. Columbus got 8 out of 10. *sigh*

I don't like North Korea having an itchy trigger finger.

kudagirl August 4 2009, 16:12:42 UTC

We have several major bases surrounding us so we might either be ground zero or get it from all sides. I worry about North Korea as well. The threat when I was a kid was all over the news, tv and movies. I remember taking a tour of a bomb shelter at the State Fair as a kid. Our world isn't any safer than it was when I was a kid. We've always tended to live in a bubble of assumed safety here in the States. 911 kind of broke our innocent about that.

debris4spike August 4 2009, 16:25:02 UTC

The town next to where I grew up was a nuclear-free zone - they said that as they disagreed with the cold war, they should be exempt from polution ... even then that theory seemed weird!

Growing up in the London area we always presumed we were in dangerous location, but when we moved to Bude thought life would be safer - until we realised that 5 miles up the road is an American tracking station ... which vaguely comes under English control. So, a great place to not be!

kudagirl August 4 2009, 16:35:20 UTC

These days there is no safe zone I'm afraid. I grew up with bomb shelters and storm shelters. I refuse to be buried after I die. Spent way too much time underground since my mom and grandmother were terrified of tornadoes. A single drop of rain and we ran to the storm shelters. The only tornado I was ever in, I slept through. It came right over our apt. The back door started shaking like someone was trying to force their way in. I was surprised when I went outside and saw bits of roof and tree limbs all over the place.

debris4spike August 4 2009, 17:35:05 UTC

Mum and Dad always said, when we were in the 70s London that no way would they go in a shelter - Dad grew up (as a teen) in London - and seen enough people randomly killed in air-raid shelters during the war anyway! My great Aunt used to say that if Hitler wanted to bomb her, he would find her, wherever she hid!