wow thats crazy... good read...
However if I had 2 hours before impact, i would of jumped in the ride (once i comfirmed it so) and hauled ass as fast as I can, you can easily out run the blast radius if your given a 2 hour notice.... but my 1st priority would be to notify my family and friends...
I always run this scenario through my head every so often,
Hey Kanibus they drug test over there bro?
EAS false alarms don't occur often, but they do happen, if that is what this was. "On February 1, 2005, someone activated an EAS message over radio and television stations in Connecticut telling residents to evacuate the state immediately. Officials at the Office of Emergency Management announced that the activation and broadcast of the Emergency Alert System was in error due to possibly the wrong button being pressed." I wonder if something similar happened in the area you were working in.
Perhaps, but had it been real. You could make the argument that my experience before the missile hit was "near death"
Too bad there wasn't a hot lady there. You may have been able to get some "end of the world sex" from her.
Had that feeling the first few times we had incoming rockets, mortars and bullets...... Then it just got annoying.
If the announcement actually claimed impact in 1.5 to 2 hours I would have started laughing! A Taepodong-2 ICBM from North Korea would take less than 30 minutes to reach Los Angeles being sub-orbital. Additionally we would have to wait until a few minutes after launch before we would even remotely know the trajectory and possible impact area so that would cut down warning time even more.
U.M.
+1. I lived in a tent for 8 months in Afghanistan so I always heard all the noise. I used to sleep with ear plugs so the rockets, sirens and small arms fire wouldn't wake me.
never heard much small arms fire close enough to worry. but the mortars and rockets were an issue. and the first couple of years in Iraq the bombs going off in response to their stupid were also of the stand up and take notice variety until we got used to them as well.+1. I lived in a tent for 8 months in Afghanistan so I always heard all the noise. I used to sleep with ear plugs so the rockets, sirens and small arms fire wouldn't wake me.
when we first got to balad in 03 it was very annoying and didn't bother me much except for when you could hear them being walked in. you could tell that every time they were getting a little closer. I had a few moments of pause during them. and yeah getting your shit on and walking to the hard building up the hill for accountability got really annoying. so a few of us would just stay in our tent and send the accountability up the hill with the ones that wanted to go.Had that feeling the first few times we had incoming rockets, mortars and bullets...... Then it just got annoying.
If the announcement actually claimed impact in 1.5 to 2 hours I would have started laughing! A Taepodong-2 ICBM from North Korea would take less than 30 minutes to reach Los Angeles being sub-orbital. Additionally we would have to wait until a few minutes after launch before we would even remotely know the trajectory and possible impact area so that would cut down warning time even more.
U.M.
Too bad there wasn't a hot lady there. You may have been able to get some "end of the world sex" from her.