How far away do you need to be from DC to be safe from a nuclear attack?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve discussed it and we’re leaving on Saturday. We found an AirBnB in Covington, VA, about 4 hours from DC. We’ve booked it for 21 days… I guess if there’s an attack it won’t matter at that point and we’ll just stay there. There’s not much around it, and it’s miles and miles from anywhere that would seem even remotely important. Closest “city” is Roanoke, and that’s almost 45 miles away. That seems like the best we can do on short notice. We both WFH and are familiar enough with home schooling thanks to the pandemic that I think the kids will be ok for a while. They’re too young to really understand this, so as long as they’ve got stuff to keep them occupied I think they’ll manage ok….. I never believed we’d be in a mess like this a year ago. It’s just inconceivable. I just can’t even fathom it.

Jeff did this person post from the us?

I’m the PP you’re quoting. I’m definitely in the US. Sitting in my living room in Chevy Chase View right off of Summit and Dresden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forget it people there are twenty targets within four hours of Washington. Half of them you’ve heard of but are too dumb to realize the strategic value.

Ok, enlighten us please mr smartypants. Mansplain it to use like we’re at the water cooler and you’re holding court.

Are you really this stupid? Google is your friend idiot.

No. You tell us. You’re the one claiming to be the expert here.

So let’s hear it.

[Anonymous]

Let's just pray to God that our president handles this perfectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you are packing up and running away is just hilarious.

Why do you think it’s so funny? Because I find no humor in it all. I don’t want to DIE.

That’s hilarious to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve discussed it and we’re leaving on Saturday. We found an AirBnB in Covington, VA, about 4 hours from DC. We’ve booked it for 21 days… I guess if there’s an attack it won’t matter at that point and we’ll just stay there. There’s not much around it, and it’s miles and miles from anywhere that would seem even remotely important. Closest “city” is Roanoke, and that’s almost 45 miles away. That seems like the best we can do on short notice. We both WFH and are familiar enough with home schooling thanks to the pandemic that I think the kids will be ok for a while. They’re too young to really understand this, so as long as they’ve got stuff to keep them occupied I think they’ll manage ok….. I never believed we’d be in a mess like this a year ago. It’s just inconceivable. I just can’t even fathom it.

Jeff did this person post from the us?

Who is Jeff?

Found the outsider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's just pray to God that our president handles this perfectly.

I’m sorry to break this to you, but there is no God, and you are wasting your time in such fairy tales. And frankly, this is the kind of tripe that people who didn’t vote for our President say.

[Anonymous]

I have potassium iodide. I bought it on Amazon a few years back genre North Korea was in the news for suspected nuclear missile testing.

My parents in rural PA have a full-on bunker and a few years of food and their life is completely solar and generator powered. My dad bought an electric car yesterday. He's been working on their set-up for years. He's an ivy-league educated lawyer who's gone a little off his rocker in his late 70s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's just pray to God that our president handles this perfectly.

LOLOLOLOLOL

This. Just legit LOLed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you are packing up and running away is just hilarious.

Why do you think it’s so funny? Because I find no humor in it all. I don’t want to DIE.

That’s hilarious to you?

I find it humorous that some of you are really packing up and running to airbnbs. Like come on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess this is the residual benefit of being GenX and growing up in DC. I (a) am not worried and (b) have always thought it better to die in the initial attack than survive and die slowly from radiation poisoning, starvation, etc. As a kid growing up in the Cold War, I actually thought about all this a lot.

I also think it unlikely that Putin would actually use nuclear weapons. I could be wrong, but the cost to the country that uses them is too great.

+1

Except the last part. Putin has changed. He’s certifiably insane now. I think he’s a narcissistic man baby enough that he would use them.

[Anonymous]

Google NUKEMAP if you want to see the impact by bomb size, location, weather conditions etc.

[Anonymous]

Given the number of layered defensive systems that are probably protecting the District it’s probably the safest place on earth from a tbm attack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given the number of layered defensive systems that are probably protecting the District it’s probably the safest place on earth from a tbm attack.

Ummmm no. We can’t even stop insurrectionists from invading the Capitol even with a day’s notice. I have absolutely no faith that we could stop a swarm of incoming nuclear missiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve discussed it and we’re leaving on Saturday. We found an AirBnB in Covington, VA, about 4 hours from DC. We’ve booked it for 21 days… I guess if there’s an attack it won’t matter at that point and we’ll just stay there. There’s not much around it, and it’s miles and miles from anywhere that would seem even remotely important. Closest “city” is Roanoke, and that’s almost 45 miles away. That seems like the best we can do on short notice. We both WFH and are familiar enough with home schooling thanks to the pandemic that I think the kids will be ok for a while. They’re too young to really understand this, so as long as they’ve got stuff to keep them occupied I think they’ll manage ok….. I never believed we’d be in a mess like this a year ago. It’s just inconceivable. I just can’t even fathom it.

What was the deciding factor? I would like to leave for a bit as well and I’m trying to convince my spouse. We may leave out of the country if need be.

What Putin said yesterday. Or rather, how he looked when he said it. Something’s up with him. He’s changed somehow. He’s always been a monster, but even his eyes look different now. Like he just doesn’t care. He got backed into a corner and started a war to save face. Now I think he knows it’s all going to fall apart, and I really do think he’ll launch missiles out of sheer spite. If he’s going to lose, why not take the world down with him, kinda deal. I wonder if he has a terminal illness? I don’t know, but we’re getting out. If nothing comes of it, well the worst thing is that we paid for 3 weeks in a shabby looking 2 bedroom cabin in the middle of nowhere. I’ll take that gamble.

My dh & I said the same thing. Dead eyes and a different palor. He’s also notorious for the plastic surgery and Botox and he’s let himself go with wrinkles on his forehead. We wondered if he has an illness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve discussed it and we’re leaving on Saturday. We found an AirBnB in Covington, VA, about 4 hours from DC. We’ve booked it for 21 days… I guess if there’s an attack it won’t matter at that point and we’ll just stay there. There’s not much around it, and it’s miles and miles from anywhere that would seem even remotely important. Closest “city” is Roanoke, and that’s almost 45 miles away. That seems like the best we can do on short notice. We both WFH and are familiar enough with home schooling thanks to the pandemic that I think the kids will be ok for a while. They’re too young to really understand this, so as long as they’ve got stuff to keep them occupied I think they’ll manage ok….. I never believed we’d be in a mess like this a year ago. It’s just inconceivable. I just can’t even fathom it.

What was the deciding factor? I would like to leave for a bit as well and I’m trying to convince my spouse. We may leave out of the country if need be.

What Putin said yesterday. Or rather, how he looked when he said it. Something’s up with him. He’s changed somehow. He’s always been a monster, but even his eyes look different now. Like he just doesn’t care. He got backed into a corner and started a war to save face. Now I think he knows it’s all going to fall apart, and I really do think he’ll launch missiles out of sheer spite. If he’s going to lose, why not take the world down with him, kinda deal. I wonder if he has a terminal illness? I don’t know, but we’re getting out. If nothing comes of it, well the worst thing is that we paid for 3 weeks in a shabby looking 2 bedroom cabin in the middle of nowhere. I’ll take that gamble.

My dh & I said the same thing. Dead eyes and a different palor. He’s also notorious for the plastic surgery and Botox and he’s let himself go with wrinkles on his forehead. We wondered if he has an illness?

Good grief. Take this nonsense to the Celebrity forum.