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I'm a geologist, and have worked with radioactive materials for longer than you have been alive in all probability. You only worry about rapidly decaying isotopes.
So everyone else is wrong or lying?
To be honest I was shocked to learn that so little time was required.
And as I said,dont drink or eat anything in the area until you're clear of the fall out.
Seriously do some research and come back and tell me where these people are wrong.
It's an important issue to me and mine since we live in a certain fallout path.
Are we talking about Mongol hordes or do you have an example of something more timely?Sure it has. Multiple times throughout history.
You should read some.
Actually you don't.
20 x 30 is probably good enough.
That about what the Amish do per family. It takes a little work often.
15 mins here, 20 minutes there. You can skip some days.
Got an example of such an event so I might understand what you're prepping for?It's happened plenty of times,just not here.
You prepare with the obvious in mind. Food,water,firearms,meds.....etc.
That sort of thing,of course you can go further and the further ya go the more likely you'll weather whatever happens.
The aftermath of hurricane Katrina is a relevant example...Got an example of such an event so I might understand what you're prepping for?
Are we talking about Mongol hordes or do you have an example of something more timely?
What was the issue there, wind damage, flood waters, or lack of power? I don't recall roving bands of thieves so an arsenal wasn't needed. I guess a generator and a way to stay above the flood waters would be ideal. If you had a car you could leave the immediate area and stay with family or at a hotel.The aftermath of hurricane Katrina is a relevant example...
Those natural disasters were bad of course but they were temporary and localized. If you survived the initial event, very likely unless you were at or near the ocean, you would probably have been fine.Alaska quake of 1964, Sumatra quake in 2004 IIRC, the Japanese quake in 2011. All were SHTF scenarios. Those are just the natural events.
Venezuela is right now going through a politician caused SHTF moment.
Like I said, you seem remarkably ignorant of history.
Because of Climate change food will become more scarce.If you are a prepper, no matter the extent of your preparations are, or if you are thinking about starting, let's discuss.
I have a few questions for starters:
1. What do you think the SHTF scenario will look like?
2. What ways are you preparing for it?
*SHTF = Shit Hits The Fan
ACTUALLY...I agree, I just think it's not as likely as food and currency issues.
China, Russia, and Islamic Terrorists could attempt to do it. I have thought about a EMP attack a lot lately and Faraday Cages.
Have you thought about what you would do if it happened that the power grid was taken out and how you would prepare?
Those natural disasters were bad of course but they were temporary and localized. If you survived the initial event, very likely unless you were at or near the ocean, you would probably have been fine.
Venezuela is a SHTF event but it has been going on for years. How much prepping would get you through that. Having a passport and money would be your best bet.
I think there is a big difference between living and surviving.Plenty. The farmers out in the country are doing fine. Those that can hide their product that is.
Got an example of such an event so I might understand what you're prepping for?
The reality is that isotopes with short half lives (measured in weeks, or days) are dangerous as hell. They emit gamma radiation at prodigious rates and that's what gives you radiation sickness.
The slow half life isotopes primarily emit Alpha, and Beta particles. Both of which are stopped by a sheet of paper. So long as you don't ingest those isotopes, you will be fine. Even if you did ingest them, you will most likely die of heavy metal poisoning long before the radiation kills you.
I have traveled through Chernobyl twice. Once 5 years after the accident, and again after 20 years. Both times I was with a guide, and we each had Geiger counters.
The first time there was significant radiation on both sides of pretty much all of the roads. There was just so much material that had collected in the low lying areas that even though the half lives were relatively short, there was just a ton of material to process.
After 20 years the vast majority was clear. There are still a couple of small pockets that are still "hot", but because the isotopes are of the slow decay variety, so long as you take simple precautions, you are safe.
That's why I say, you wait a month. After a month the rapidly decaying elements have devolved into their daughter elements and expended their gamma radiation. At that point, simple precautions allow safe travel in most places.
I think there is a big difference between living and surviving.
A nuclear plant meltdown has to be a lot worse than fall out from a nuclear explosion.
It's concentrated in a small area rather than thinly spread throughout a large area.
No, not really. The blast from an Hbomb is orders of magnitude more powerful, and tosses thousands of tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
No, not really. The blast from an Hbomb is orders of magnitude more powerful, and tosses thousands of tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
No, not really. The blast from an Hbomb is orders of magnitude more powerful, and tosses thousands of tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
