Nuclear attack during school

Question

If a nuclear attack happened while you or i was at school and it survived the blast and heat and the fall out was coming. What would you do? follow instructions or go to the cafeteria and take all the water and such with a couple of friends and try to make a shelter in the school? or leave and try to find another place? I highly doubt there is enough water and food for everyone in the school to last 2 weeks.... till the fallout denigrates.

Answer 1

I think you should look at it this way: Everyone else at the school IS food sooner or later.

That is the extreme version of the moral dilemma you face when you say you're going to strike out with a handful of people. You're leaving the others behind to fend for themselves and taking valuable resources by force or guile. So why not kill and eat the weak while you're at it?

In troubled times like these, we should be able to count on each other to support the group, not become self-centered survivalists clambering to the top of the pile. We should throw together and work together to survive together.

I think if you look at a student body of 1,000 or so, that there should be enough food and water that under strict rationing the group could survive. Hungry, thirsty, but survive.

I'd be looking at ways to conduct forays out of the "surviving" building and find canned goods and other safe foodstuffs in the wreckage. The school does have other resources, like that almost operable 57 chevy down in the auto shop for transportation in the post-EMP landscape. Heck, you could McGyver a radiation suit and air supply from materials around the school.

Or sacrifice yourself to the damaging radiation to bring back supplies that will help the rest of the group survive.

Yeah, so, that's a nice idea. Me, I'd steal the security guard's gun and kidnap the queen of the prom and the cheerleading team captain and lock ourselves in the cooler. Procreation is, after all, one way to help society continue after such a crisis.

Jim the Yooper

Thoroughly considered this during math class, February, 1981

Answer 2

If evacuation was out of the question due to uncertain radiation patterns, the 1) Get supplies (Drinking water, food, toilet paper, garbage bags, 1st Aid kits, Flashlights, etc...), and 2) head to the lowest part of the basement to create as much shielding between you and the radioactive fallout. As the radiation decays over the next few days, you can greatly increase your survival by sitting out the worst part.

Answer 3

Part of the "Peace Dividend"  after the fall of the USSR was the US government closed down all its shelters and got rid of the food and water.  So like Katrina,  do not expect any quick help from your local, state or federal government.  

I would go it on my own.   Fallout comes down down wind so I would seek shelter, food and water up wind,  in most cases that means go west.   I would suggest a grocery store as most of the time they have two solid walls on the sides,  a loading dock on the back and glass across the front.   Set up near the back of the store,  barricade the windows in front,  guard the doors and you should have everything you need for quite a while.....except some guns.....

Answer 4

Oh sweetie, i would join hands with my fellow students and sing songs about coming home, to the afterlife that is.......and wait.  Let peace be among you and then let what happens happen.