re: Based on the new FEMA nuclear target map, how screwed are you?

What's up with the one on the New York.Vermont border?

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Fallout would get me

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Fallout would depend on the prevailing winds that day and strength of the nuclear weapon and height of the blast.

I am about 30 miles SSW of NOLA. And I could be okay depending on the winds from a blast in NOLA. If the winds are from the north or NE I am screwed on a surface blast, as fallout would head south and a lack of subsurface structures, would leave many exposed to the fallout. Only hope would be a sturdy building with many floors and a few concrete walls between the exterior and you to shield from the fallout.

A typical SE wind would spread fallout all the way to Baton Rouge and to as far north as Arkansas.

But as someone said, do you want to live after the blast? Think of all the radioactive water runoff flowing down the Mississippi River from other blasts. Communication blackouts and societal breakdown after the blast when it is just the local government who is in direct communication with you. Then there are food shortages and lack of portable water in the coming weeks until society gets its crap together.

In either a 500 or 2000 warhead scenario if the intitial blast doesn’t kill you the fallout and nuclear winter would get you eventually.

Lafayette is dead center of a 500 warhead. Then, throw in all of the 2,000 warhead targets, there's nothing left of Louisiana.

I’m assuming the only reason monroe is in the 500 strike is the airport. Of course it could be a target because destroying Johnny’s pizza headquarters would hurt morale

Looks like they’d send a 500 warhead through the front window of my house based on this map

Not enough black dots on DC.

Welp, 30a isn’t a direct hit, but if the wind shifts, we’re gonna be in trouble!

As long as it hits Washington I’ll be just fine

Actually I’ll be better than I am now