Has anyone seen the bomb shelter bit on Link TV ?

[blues90]

I happened to tune in and see the 30 minute show . People building shelters . They are building them mainy to fend off terrorists . Some hope to survive nuclear attacks .

I personally think they are a bit out there . Some claim to be able to go almost a year and what do they expect to find when they emerge from their holes ? The people who seemed to be doing this were out in the farmlands or country , do they actually expect terrorists to attack them out there . And if they did do they think no one would find their air supply or the door leading in . If it were a nuclear was after a year do they think there would be a supply of usefull food and water ?

[MuseRider]

1. Dunno

but if there is one I am going outside to watch the pretty light show. I have no desire to try to navigate post nuclear war.

[xmas74]

18. If you lived closer you could come and sit in my backyard.

I live about 8 miles from Whiteman.

[MuseRider]

20. Wow, that would be a good place to be!

Back during the Cold War we were told that our area had so many missile silos that we were on the first strike list. I have no idea if that has changed. I do know that coming out of a small shelter after a year (that is assuming nobody killed me down there ;)) to die of starvation, dehydration or radiation sickness does not sound like fun. Life is good but death does not scare me, it only pisses me off that it would be happening because of all this damned testosterone and stupidity. :hi: thanks, I'll watch from here. You aren't that far away that it would be healthy even over here.

[xmas74]

21. In school we were told that the Whiteman area is

strike zone #3-behind DC and Omaha. (DC is obvious and Omaha is Strategic Command). Either way, we're all screwed. (This was toward the end of the Cold War.)

I know people who were still in on 9-11 and they said that "fingers were on buttons" that day. Scary thought. One of the men is now retired and he won't give exact events but says that we've been there more than a few times.

Oh, well. We know that if it happens my house will be a light show.

(Hey-if the shuttle ever gets over here again I'll give you a heads up. You could see it from outside the fence that day. Pretty cool.)

[xmas74]

2. I'm not building a shelter.

I live way too close to a strike zone. Remember the movie The Day After? Remember the base they talk about in the movie? I live next door to that base.

If it happens, I'm giving my daughter a sleeping pill and we'll snuggle down in bed. That's it. No way we'd live through it and that's actually a comforting thought.

[blues90]

3. Was this movie years ago ?

I ask because I can't remember some of the names of exact movies , is this the one with the husband who biked to work in the city and never came back , The wife and town died off one at a time I think Kevin Costner was in it .

There were many movies like this but now when they should air them they don't . It's not a fear tactic , it's an awarness thing I would think .

[LSK]

4. that movie was in the early 80s set in Kansas

Basically WW3 happened and it showed folks in the Kansas City area dying after nuclear war. I think it was originally a made for tv movie by ABC.

[shadowknows69]

5. That was testament

I don't think KC was in it though. Jane Alexander was. The husband was William Devane.

[blues90]

9. yes that's the one i was thinking of

The husband was a cycle nut and brought his son up to follow .

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. There's a movie called Testament, in which

Jane Alexander plays a woman living in a small town outside San Francisco. I don't remember if her husband bicycles to work, but San Francisco is nuked, her husband is obviously dead from the blast, and the residents of the town gradually die of radiation sickness.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. The Kevin Costner movie was "The Postman."

Also set in the post-apocalyptic future.

"The Day After" was about WWIII and it's immediate future. And despite being rather bleak, it depicted a rather rosy view of WWIII.

[lectrobyte]

10. Rosy? If it's the movie I'm thinking of, Jason Robards goes to the

rubble of his house to die, the farmers who survived in fallout shelters are simply told they need to scrape off the top foot or so of soil and replant their crops, and the young teen couple die of radiation exposure. But, not as bleak as "Threads", I'll grant you that. I can't watch that one again. The Day After was on SciFi not long ago, and had aged rather well I thought.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Yeah, rosy. They didn't want to scare kids.

Matt Groening did drew a "Life is Hell" cartoon entitled "The Day After: the adult version."

The first panel had Bongo mowing his front lawn. The second panel was a big star with the word "bang." The following seven panels were blacked out.

[lectrobyte]

19. Yeah, but that makes for a very short movie, though.

[xmas74]

22. I live in the area where the movie took place.

We were told in school that we had about 15,20 minutes tops and then nothing.

I guess if the movie was really true it would have been shorter than a sitcom.

[xmas74]

16. Some call it rosy

because where the farm was is supposed to be outside of Harrisonville, not too far from Whiteman AFB. In school they used to tell us that w/in a one hour radius of Whiteman should just hope to die at impact. In the movie they show them trying to hide out in the basement.

Another town mentioned was Leeton. In the movie they said that Sedalia was destroyed but people were going to Leeton for water. That won't happen. Leeton's closer to the base than Sedalia and the entire road to Leeton is paved w/ the old silos.

[xmas74]

11. It did depict things a bit rosy.

They said that at the time they couldn't show everything they really wanted to show. At least they did what they wanted to accomplish-they scared the shit out of everyone and got them talking about the subject. They also got the point across that "duck and cover" just wouldn't do any good.

[xmas74]

8. The movie I mentioned was a made for tv movie

shown back in the early 80's. In the past couple of years I've watched it both on Sci-Fi Channel and on Encore just a couple of weeks ago.

Kevin Costner wasn't in this one. Jason Robards and John Lithgow were in it. It won a few awards because of its portrayl of what would happen but even they admitted that it would be 1000x worse than what they showed.
IMDB listing for the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/#comment

Someone on the message boards mentions that they graduated from Sedalia Smith-Cotton High School. They stated exactly why a rural area would be targeted-missile silos. Supposedly, my area is Strike Zone Three-behind DC and Omaha.

No point in worrying about it. I won't have time to make any plans. I find it comforting that my daughter and I will not have to worry about what will happen afterward.

[blues90]

14. I agree

I would prefer to vaporize rather than to die a slow death from radiation . If something like this should happen I doubt anyone would survive for long and who would want to . It's already bad enough living with bush in control of all this madness .

[xmas74]

17. Which is exactly why my daughter and I

would just snuggle down for a nap. No talking about it, just lay down. Try to make it as peaceful as possible.

This is a hot topic across my town right now. People who normally don't watch the news are talking about it.

[niyad]

12. living next to what was, during the cold war, one of the top 3 targets in

the country, otherwise known as "ground zero" in MAD parlance, I never worry about it. I won't be here. I have always remembered what Dr. Helen Caldicott of Physicians for Social Responsiblity has said about a nuclear war, "it will be the first time that the living envy the dead". Many, many years ago, philip wylie wrote what was probably the only truly decent book in his career, "triumph" about a nuclear exchange. his descriptions of the horrors of the blasts, and their after-effects, gave me chills, and I decided right then and there that ground zero was a good place to be. I also remember the very last lines of the book. the leader of one small group of survivors is talking to the captain of the ship which is rescuing them, and he asks, "by the way, who won the war?" the captain replies, "we did. . .not that it matters"

I REFUSE to live in fear.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. A few years ago

I found out that there's one on my property.

Back in the 60's you could buy a kit with a 10' X 10' X 10' box that you bury in the ground. Oh yeah, here's a good idea. It has a vent that sticks out of the ground for air. No filtration or power of any sort. The next owners filled it in with dirt and gravel, so we didn't even know it was there.

LOL, I guess I could go dig it out if it comes to it.