The City nearest to you has just been nuked.
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Well, I live in the city of Southampton, so if that counts, I'm dead. The next sizable population centre is Portsmouth, which any bomb powerful enough to wipe out the city would also see the 'death zone', or at least the fatal fallout zone, reach me. So yeah, dead.
Aye theres not a whole lot of space up here to be dodging bombs and fallout.Distorted Stu said:
Especially since i'm in Middlesbrough, which is technically not a city, so Newcastle would be nearest to me.
Since I'm in a city (and rather centrally located at that) I'm most likely dead, in great agony or at the very least absorbing a lethal radcount. Although it is a fairly stable brick building I'm in, and they'd probably aim for the docklands and industrial zone. I doubt a Hiroshima-sized charge could demolish my house at that distance, and there's far less danger of a gigantic firestorm like in a 1945 Japanese city with lots of paper and wood.
Hmm, I suppose I've substained some minor injuries, but I'm not too hurt to lock myself into my windowless bathroom, collect as much water as I can and await further instructions. Doubt the fallout will last too long with a Hiroshima-bomb, and the authorities aren't very far off. The worst I could get is if the house catches on fire.
EDIT: I saw the special rules, I survived and didn't get radified. Goodies, although most of the inner city is damaged or destroyed. The EMP have fried all my electronics, and I imagine the waterlines would be knocked out as well, not to mention the central heating. It's a mild winter, thankfully, and I've got an old fireplace and lots of stuff to burn in case of emergency. Providing the authorities supplies enough food rations and water, I think I'd make it.
If there is any volunteer-requests for cleanup or other activities, I'd sign up. I'd also very much like to know who nuked us and why, I do hope there will be newspapers available, the rest of the nation should be functional.
Double-edit: Using that very neat calculating program, I found that if a nuclear bomb the size of the Hiroshima bomb was targeted over the most likely target (the docklands and the main industrial zone), I wouldn't suffer much more than perhaps a few cracked windows and ruined electronics. Still would suck immensly, but at this time (3 in the morning) I doubt there would be many casualties.
Hmm, I suppose I've substained some minor injuries, but I'm not too hurt to lock myself into my windowless bathroom, collect as much water as I can and await further instructions. Doubt the fallout will last too long with a Hiroshima-bomb, and the authorities aren't very far off. The worst I could get is if the house catches on fire.
EDIT: I saw the special rules, I survived and didn't get radified. Goodies, although most of the inner city is damaged or destroyed. The EMP have fried all my electronics, and I imagine the waterlines would be knocked out as well, not to mention the central heating. It's a mild winter, thankfully, and I've got an old fireplace and lots of stuff to burn in case of emergency. Providing the authorities supplies enough food rations and water, I think I'd make it.
If there is any volunteer-requests for cleanup or other activities, I'd sign up. I'd also very much like to know who nuked us and why, I do hope there will be newspapers available, the rest of the nation should be functional.
Double-edit: Using that very neat calculating program, I found that if a nuclear bomb the size of the Hiroshima bomb was targeted over the most likely target (the docklands and the main industrial zone), I wouldn't suffer much more than perhaps a few cracked windows and ruined electronics. Still would suck immensly, but at this time (3 in the morning) I doubt there would be many casualties.
Hmmm...Aberdeen and that's over 20 miles away.
Shame my Dad would end up getting blasted in the nuke but on the other hand I wouldn't even hear the damn thing or see it go up.
Shame my Dad would end up getting blasted in the nuke but on the other hand I wouldn't even hear the damn thing or see it go up.
Considering how much damage a nuke does... I'd be dead. So yeah the major change would be not being alive. Maybe if you asked about the nearest city being nuked that wasn't close enough to kill me.
Well i live about 5 minutes drive from the city, so if any of the bigger bombs were launched i'd be fucked. If we're talking a hiroshima bomb i would be okay... well except for the radiation and the loss of a job, power, water, food, about half of my friends, some relatives and pretty much all goods except for paintbrushes.
Go urbanization...
Go urbanization...