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Oh shucks, I better get out and finish digging my nuclear fall-out shelter in.

When I was a kid, my brother and I cut through a neighbor's yard on the way home from school and found a curious looking hatch cover; in fact, my brother tripped over it. Otherwise, we never would have noticed it. Turns out that the former owner of the property had had a bomb shelter installed around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Being curious kids, we looked inside and, aside from the awful stench of years of mildew and tarnished metal, it was the last place on Earth that I'd ever want to be. Ever. As far as I'm concerned, if there's a nuclear war and I can't be on a sailboat off the coast of New Zealand, I'm setting up a lawnchair at ground zero, baby. It's the only way to fry.

YOu might not have to live in a shelter for long. Just a day or so untill the debris settles and the weather moves some of the radioactivity to some other city. Then you get out and try to get to a "clean" city without inhaling any dust.