10 Pieces of Disaster Safety Advice You Should Ignore

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  • Leadeye

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    Never listen to leadership telling you to go to the local stadium, if it's not on the list it should be.
     

    IndyDave1776

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    Never listen to leadership telling you to go to the local stadium, if it's not on the list it should be.

    :+1:

    While 'never listen to leadership telling you to go to the stadium' was not on the list, there were some good bits of information and some crap, especially concerning arming yourself.
     

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    The inside a vehicle during lightning is a funny one. When I was a lad, we used to have these folks come in called "specialists" at school because our area was prone to rough weather. 25 years ago they told us to put our feet up against our asses, wrap our arms around our legs, touch nothing off the seats (like doors or floorboards), and pray. Nowadays the prayer suggestion would bring in the ACLU :rolleyes:

    ETA: during an earthquake, by the time you realize the dizziness you're feeling is because the damn ground you're on is moving, you should be protecting your head from falling stuff. I've been through at least a dozen shakers on the west coast, and they did not feel the way I expected them to until I learned to orient my eyesight on something (like blinds hanging from a window) that shouldn't be moving back and forth. In earthquake-resistant buildings, you don't get to do anything but hold on and wait for the sickening swaying to stop.
     
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    The inside a vehicle during lightning is a funny one. When I was a lad, we used to have these folks come in called "specialists" at school because our area was prone to rough weather. 25 years ago they told us to put our feet up against our asses, wrap our arms around our legs, touch nothing off the seats (like doors or floorboards), and pray. Nowadays the prayer suggestion would bring in the ACLU :rolleyes:

    Being a bit older (careful Brad...:)) we were subjected to Nuclear attack drills. Where to go, what to do and not do. The Bomb folks.....the Bomb.
     

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    Being a bit older (careful Brad...:)) we were subjected to Nuclear attack drills. Where to go, what to do and not do. The Bomb folks.....the Bomb.

    I'm just old enough to remember the "get under your desk and hold your head" drills, because they're designed to bear the weight of falling objects. Lotta good that'll do when you're getting vaporized.
     

    churchmouse

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    I'm just old enough to remember the "get under your desk and hold your head" drills, because they're designed to bear the weight of falling objects. Lotta good that'll do when you're getting vaporized.

    I specifically remember them saying do not look out the windows.
    We had a few drills that took us into the hallways early on. That changed with time.
     

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    I specifically remember them saying do not look out the windows.
    We had a few drills that took us into the hallways early on. That changed with time.

    When something horrible is happening and there's almost no hope to survive, having a plan to carry out lets people live their final moments with purpose, not terror and panic. The Cold War was some bull****.
     

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    Made for some great Black and White TEOTWAWKI movies.

    Right? I remember going home and talking with my parents at this thing called "a table" during the meal called "dinner," and them just sort of admitting that yeah, it was possible, and we should do what our teachers said. I guess the implication the young folk didn't always get was that we should do it because we were ****ed anyway.
     

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    Right? I remember going home and talking with my parents at this thing called "a table" during the meal called "dinner," and them just sort of admitting that yeah, it was possible, and we should do what our teachers said. I guess the implication the young folk didn't always get was that we should do it because we were ****ed anyway.

    We have a table. We eat dinner. Seldom use the table these days.
     

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    I've been through at least a dozen shakers on the west coast, and they did not feel the way I expected them to

    I have experienced only one very small one, which wasn't anything like I would have expected. I was at band practice, already sitting on the ground as the director was giving a lecture, and it felt like someone grabbed my ass. It took a few minutes to realize what had happened.
     

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    I have experienced only one very small one, which wasn't anything like I would have expected. I was at band practice, already sitting on the ground as the director was giving a lecture, and it felt like someone grabbed my ass. It took a few minutes to realize what had happened.

    I used to work with a gal that reacted faster to earthquakes than anyone else I ever knew. Her office was next to mine, and when she bolted I learned to be right behind her. She had great legs, so I figured if that was the last thing I got to see it'd be better than my computer screen.
     

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    I'm just old enough to remember the "get under your desk and hold your head" drills, because they're designed to bear the weight of falling objects. Lotta good that'll do when you're getting vaporized.

    You know, more people will be affected by the blast than those in the fireball.
     

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    The purpose of standing in a doorway in an earthquake was to be in an area where the vertical structure would resist collapse. In a collapsing structure (or where the ceiling is collapsing partially) about the best you can do is get NEXT to some heavy object that is likely able to support the weight of whatever is falling on you. Getting under a desk, for example, is just another way to have the weight of the desk AND the ceiling on you when the desk's legs collapse. Falling objects are a crap shoot. When I lived in Houston, we taped our windows entirely to reduce the amount of glass fragments if the windows broke - and that was for any window which couldn't be covered by plywood. The purpose of "duck and cover" wasn't to enhance your chances if you are in the blast zone of a nuclear detonation, but to minimize damage if you're in the much wider overpressure zone, where structural damage and flying debris are likely, but heat and radiation were not instantly fatal. If there had been a minor nuclear exchange - or even a major nuclear exchange - there would have been a huge number of survivors outside major target areas. Long term survival might have been in question, but there would have been survivors even in the blast zones.
     

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    Love the zombie advice...

    HowStuffWorks.com said:
    Bolt- or lever-action rifles are a great choice for longer range strikes. The one-shot capacity makes users choose their shots wisely, saving a great deal of ammunition over showier automatic weapons. They are also easy to maintain, and bullets are widely available.
     

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