Nuclear war (or threat of)

Empi, not EMP’s…

 

Assuming I'm at home when it all goes pop, I'll be in here with my iodine tablets, a lot of cheap wine, tinned food and many year's worth of children's art work. We've got our own Swiss grade porta-potty in there, and a large air filtration machine with a big handle to turn. Apparently, after three weeks we can come out again. All the alarms were tested last week, good timing? I'm not sure we have enough food, and certainly not any water, so we'll be in trouble if there is an inspection. We've never been inspected in 20 years, but friends have.

 

So much for the protection of neutrality
More importantly…..why the cheap wine? Surely that’s the time to indulge .

 

It's to keep him safe when Vlad presses his big red button!

 

Wish I had one

 

I was thinking that. I’ve seen too many post apocalyptic films to want to survive beyond the first wave of missiles.

 

Everyone living in Switzerland has to have access to a bomb shelter, either in your own house/apartment block, or in the municipal one. All houses built before ca. 2000 (I think) had to have built in bomb shelters, now when you build a house, if you don't install a shelter, you have to pay to 'rent' your place in the municipal one. Our municipal one doubles up as the changing rooms at the local school. I'm also issued with iodine tablets, but that is because we live within 50 km of a nuclear power station. There's even one in the basement of the building where I work, just in case. All very safe, and just a bit paranoid. Not much is going to get through foot thick reinforced concrete, but what worries me is, how will we open the door again when the house has collapsed around it?

 

Think I need to get a bigger Breville.

 

I’d go full send…..get a George, you can hide behind it when the blast wave hits.

 

Is this a reaction to the US trying to provide $60B "aid" and the Trump blocking it (temporarily?) circus?

 

WOW .

 

Reminds me of that animation , When The North Wind Blows…

 

As a teenager I went to stay with my then girlfriend's family in Lausanne. I slept in the nuclear bunker, which was just down a flight of stairs off the hallway. There was a conventional door so I didn't have to lock myself in with the big foot-thick metal one...

 

My wife’s Grandad watch the bomb at Hiroshima go off, from the navel ship he was on. They then got off the ship and walked around the site taking pics. Think she still has a couple.