Yeah, it will be pretty much impossible to get out of any major metro area if anything bad were to happen. I'm afraid the Super Duty would need some Bigfoot size tires to get outa downtown. I've always hated living in the city, especially since I grew up in the middle of Nebraska. Call me paranoid but I like the feeling of not being so close to millions of people if anything bad were to happen. This place would be total chaos, I'm just glad I have a nice collection of hunting gear to assist my leave!

I think I'd go look for Big Daddy Velvet, what would be a better way to go than with chicks, beer, guns and trucks!?

 

i grew up right next to Oceana in the Great Neck area of Va.Beach. 90% of the people i grew up with still live there and we talk about this stuff all the time. Hampton Roads would have been first for a nuclear strike but i dont think its high on the list of terrorist attacks. there's just too much of a military presence in the area.

 

The only people that are on a high alert are the government officials. I think it is a matter of "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, the Great and Powerful Oz has spoken!"

 

Duct tape and plastic will help in the event of a dirty bomb. The goal in a case like that is to keep radioactive dust off you (and have a good supply of potassium iodide, which I have!).....

 

Ken: It was my understanding that this morning's message was geared toward biological and chemical warfare, not nuclear.

 

"Tenet said intelligence points to attacks that could occur this week, possibly using a ``dirty bomb'' that spews out radiological material."

From:

http://wsbradio.com/news/021103fbiciacong.html

 

BrienoBrien

Thought this would look good here. Can't take credit for it though

 

I saw so many people at the Home Depot today wiht plastic and tape and stuff. I would love to say I'm prepared but I feel like it is virtually impossible to be totally or close to that prepared. I have treated it from day one like a big storm is brewing, in case things are a little disrupted, I have some extra chow, extra water, although I live on a well so a generator for the pump would be better, and extra heating supplies, like coal and wood split, but you gotta move on. We live out in Culpeper, Virginia, about 60 miles SW of D.C., and all the necks are getting silly with this plastic. I fully agree and believe that when and if anything happens, it will be in an area where there is high populass, where the fanatics may inflict most damage to people while simutaniously hurting the economy somehow. Or one of the two by itself. But really what can you do, I'm still going to work, busting my butt, and living today like any other day. I'm gonna let the yuppies in their "M" class SUV's get their tape and such and worry themselves to death. I got three kids to feed and I'm going to try and provide them with a nice simple, comfortable life. When this place gets like Israel, bombings daily, suicide bombers and such, then I will be more proactive I guess. But we aren't there yet, and hopefully we never will be. But then again, who would have thought 2 years ago the *******s could or would be working on dropping the twin towers and then actually pull it off.
Later, Blair

 

I'm not going to worry about anything. We live 10 minutes from the state capitol, and we have 4 military bases here. We be at ground zero, that's were we prefer to be.

If something bad happens, I mean, really bad, we don't want to suffer through it.

 

I don't worry about it either. I don't live my life in fear. If I'm caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, well then that's how it is. I stand a greater chance of being killed in a car wreck... so I don't necessarily worry about it. It's your time when it's your time. I think the media loves to stir people up far too much and will say just about anything.

As far as locations, I live in NJ and work in Manhattan, so I guess you could say I live and work in a targeted area. I'm not about to flee the area to some remote area just to please a terrorist. I'll stay right where I am until I want to move.

 

I say if we spend the money on defense and not on welfare, then none of us have to decide if we are in a high risk area or not, because we could all be equally well protected. But then too many Americans forget just what the federal government is and isn't supposed to do.
The Constitution DOES talk about the federal government protecting the CITIZENS from crime and foreign invaders.
The Constitution DOES NOT talk about the federal government stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Show me where it says anything about wealth redistribution, or even subsidies, or research funding for that matter. Argue all you want about the merits of what ever program you feel is worthy, but you can't point to a portion of the Constitution of the United States of America that authorizes such activities.

 

Hrm, maybe I misread that..
But I think you would change your mind if you were poor.
Some people cant help but being that way (ones that try to work, and do work)
Im not taking sides here, but who's to say that one person should live a life or poverty when he works his butt off, while another man sits in an office all day and basically does nothing?
Just wondering...
I think if you work, you deserve something... if you want to sit on your rump at home all day... then you don't deserve jack.
Again, I may have misread that last post... but my 2 cents is that not all poor people can help being poor. And why wouldn't a wealthy man try and help out, when in fact he was once poor... as everyone was when they came to America.

 

I dont know how the thread shifted from terror to welfare, but I am changing it back, if y'all don't mind...
Let them target me. They target me anyways, and to them it doesn't matter WHERE they strike, in relation to strategic military importance. It's all about body count to the terrorists, and if that's what they want, Denver isn't a bad place to target. But neither is Phoenix, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, or Cleveland. Roll the dice, man.
Plastic sheeting is great for making your home more energy efficient. Simply stretch it over your windows and staple it down, then hit it with the blow dryer. Want to fight terrorists with plastic sheeting and duct tape? Use it to cut down on your energy consumption! Duct tape around any window seals that are not regularly opened, and use plastic as stated to fight the War on Terror in your community TODAY!
Message paid for by the Foundation for Wasting Valuable Time on Spurious Public Service Messages (FWVTSPSM, for short)
BDV

 

Keep on playing right into the hands of terrorists!!!! If we are afraid of these guys and keep showing our hand, we are doomed.
Stand up tall. do whatever you want to do, and stop worrying!!!!
The news programs are brainwashing us into a frenzy. This is what the terrorists want!!!! The terrorists can't wipe us out!!!
If they try anything again, I guarantee that the USA will attack every suspect country and wipe them out!!!! Death to all enemies
of AMERICA!!!!!

 

I am certainly whipped into a frenzy.
I think I will take apart my Bic pen and shoot spitwads at all the Arabs I see walking around. THEY MIGHT BE TERRORISTS! Yeah, and I will go to the airport with a box of tacks and spread them all over the tarmac so the planes will all have flat tires and can't be used as weapons! I am so worked up, I want to do whatever it takes to protect my country; I just signed a petition for a bill that will make wire taps without a warrant legal for all law enforcement, and make it legal for police to search houses and seize property without a warrant or indictment. They need those powers, and we really don't HAVE to have privacy.
Everything the President says is credible, intelligent and correct, because the news anchors told me so. It's great having somebody to think for me...I don't "think" I could do it on my own, what with all the evil in the world.
I need to go to bed, man!
BDV