I dunno if the schools still do this stuff nowadays.
By the time I was in the sixth grade they had renamed the practice to "Tornado Drill" then the name evolved into the all encompassing "Disaster Drill."
Lotta good those drills would have done.
I don't remember any such drills in Junior High or High School but then again I was not paying much attention to anything that went on in school back then; I figured my chances of living into adulthood were nil with the world situation being what it was. I seem to recall that our high school quit doing the Fire Drill Building-Evacuation because so many of us just wandered away for the balance of the day instead of returning to class.
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One of the books I am trying to work through is Nuclear War Survival Skills. My son loaned it to me. He tends to keep up on this more than I do. I am ready to go so it isn't a big deal, but what the book tells gives a different spin.
ReplyDeleteThe book talks about how much of the fear was nothing but government hype. I would say similar to the Covid panic spread to take away or liberty more than protect us. The book admits that if the bomb goes off right over your head, you are toast. The key factor is how far away you are from the blast and like ripples on a pond the energy diminishes rapidly. The book says that the drills we did are important because the biggest danger is not the radiation or leveling the building but the glass that would shotgun across the room. For most people, surviving the attack would be mainly staying out of the way of flying glass that would cut you to pieces.
As a teacher I was more worried about having keys to the bins holding the survival supplies and having items in them that were not rotten. Believe it or not I have been where we could not open the bins.
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