There are some standard rules you should follow.
1) The first thing you will see is a very bright flash. If you have the presence of mind to count, do so, because that can be extremely valuable information to have in the near future. You should hit the dirt, because there is soon to be a blast wave with flying objects at a high rate of speed. And if you are on the ground you are less likely to be hit by them. When the blast wave hits, stop counting.
2) Do not look at the pretty mushroom cloud. Your inclination is to stare at it, which you must not do. You want to get behind dirt, concrete, anything thick and dense until the mushroom cloud is pretty much over. This is because that burning cloud is also emitting a LOT of radiation.
3) Now you want to go to someplace, hopefully underground, as soon as possible. Be advised, you will have to stay there for a minimum of two weeks until the fallout has decayed enough for you to leave.
4) Whether you are above ground or underground in a building, you want to be near the wall furthest away from the detonation. Dense thick walls and distance are your friends.
5) No, those aren’t flesh eating zombies. Those are people with severe burns and radiation poisoning. They will desperately want to get to water. They are the first group to die, after those who were instantly killed.
The next group are those who got a big dose of radiation and are facing organ failure. Lesser numbers of people will die of various things until about a month after the detonation, when many people’s immune systems will temporarily shut down, making them very susceptible to disease.
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What do you do with that count? Is it like lightning and thunder, divide by five? Or divide by something else because it’s a blast not a sound.
Good advice. One other thing, two feet of water will reduce gamma by a factor of ten. Four feet of water will reduce dose by a factor of 100. So a good shelter could use water for shielding. Plus it can supply drinking water, which will be in short supply. Properly set up you could make pretty good shielding using filled three and five gallon plastic water bottles or filled water cans.
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