Driving by ground zeros near you....

[ArmySGT.]

I have a nice view of Cheyenne Mountain from my backyard.

I would be toast.

[Cdnwolf]

Detroit and Sarnia on one side... Toronto and Hamilton on the other.... but both over 70 miles away... I should survive... unless they think the General Dynamics plant is worth targeting...

[Matt Wiser]

Count me as someone who's similar to stg58fals' situation: I'm an hour's drive from Castle AFB (Not on the canon target list, though it was a SAC base, home of the 93rd Bomb Wing and all B-52/KC-135 training in a continued Cold War). Fresno's not on the list, and neither is NAS Lemoore. I'm in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and we wouldn't even get the blast wave from a Fresno detonation. The fireballs would be visible, though....

[Grimace]

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. The nearest target to me is Malstom AFB, at 200+ miles I think. And on the other side of several mountain ranges.

I'm a bit closer to the same target. About 95 miles for me. Granted there's a fair bit hilly terrain between me and the blast zone. As long as it wasn't nuked in winter, I'd be okay from fallout. The winds prevail from the south and west most of the year (except winter, when they come from the north and east...the direction of Malmstrom).

[TrailerParkJawa]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who has a grim thought or two!

[Snake Eyes]

I drive by the Richmond petroleum facilities on a regular basis. I drive by the other ones on the list periodically. I think about the radiation, heat, and shock wave crossing the Bay and hitting southern Marin. Mill Valley is shielded by Tiburon and Belvedere, provided the blast epicenter is suitably low for hitting the Richmond site.

After the watching the aftermath of the Chevron explosion last month, it is not much of a stretch to extrapolate mushroom clouds over Richmond, Rodeo, Crockett and Martinez. I'm well over the hills to the east, but any sufficient destruction in that area would make life plenty miserable here for quite some time.

[Tombot]

I recently made a map of the T2k-Netherlands and the Zone Morte, in which i would have died (if the game-history would be gruesome reality)... cause i live in the german part of the zone (cologne).

I would stick up my burned middlefinger to the west (for every french helicopter which could possibly pass over the flattened landscape around my corpse).


PS: When i visitied Krakow a while ago, none of my T2k-gaming-buddys was around. Sad.
My other pals didnt quite get my enthusiasm (i guess i behaved like a 6 year old on his way to f...ng disneyworld!).

[TrailerParkJawa]

After the watching the aftermath of the Chevron explosion last month, it is not much of a stretch to extrapolate mushroom clouds over Richmond, Rodeo, Crockett and Martinez. I'm well over the hills to the east, but any sufficient destruction in that area would make life plenty miserable here for quite some time.

I'm not certain if I would be able to see the clouds from SJ. I think so, especially where I live now, but in 1997 I lived in a different part of SJ and think my view would have been blocked by Mission Peak.

I most certainly would not want to be in Walnut Creek. Or anywhere else in Contra Costa county.

On a side note, I visited Mill Valley for the very first time on Sunday. Pretty nice, lots of old buildings.