If Air Raid Sirens Go Off In The Middle Of The Night......

[global1]

what are we supposed to do? I don't believe I was ever told?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Duck and cover.

We old folks know that drill.

[Stallion]

13. Unless Your Parents Signed a Consent to Pick You Up at School

....in case of nuclear conflagration

[Lexee]

23. Get under our desk? Bathtub? Doorway?

[FarPoint]

52. Hahaha

Yes..we do...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. Well, if you're a child of the 50s, go hide under your desk.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The rest of the drill, IIRC, is

put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

[Hekate]

18. Yes indeed that is the drill

[Doreen]

31. Oh my, I'm screwed.

I'm to fat to succeed in that maneuver.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Me, too - too fat and no longer limber.

I guess my ass is on its own.

[Doreen]

35. There was a day way back when that

I could come at least very close but....yeah...the past is long ago.

[Renew Deal]

4. Run

[Lexee]

24. Where? lol

[woodsprite]

5. Well, since our local bomb shelters are now part of the University,

I'd stick my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye.

Actually, I can't contort that way (too old). I'd head for the basement under the stairs. We don't have provisions down there, but we do have 2 blow-up mattresses for when we slept down there during a tornado/high wind threat.

[Hoyt]

6. Don't worry, if in blast zone, won't matter what you do..

[roamer65]

7. Go outside and bask in the millisecond of bright light.

Be burnt to ash. You won’t want the suffering of radiation poisoning. It’s a horrible way to die.

[shanti]

22. Nothing a bullet wouldn't take care of if it got to that point n/t

[coti]

8. People are getting pretty jacked up, here.

Nothing like that is going to happen.

[Skittles]

11. oh don't you know?

eventually Trump will refuse to leave office too

[greytdemocrat]

25. LOL!!!

I've never heard that before.

[UniteFightBack]

21. Most likely this is true. But ya never know what you unleash even here at home. Ya never

know there could be some sympathizers. Remote but possible. But they have plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc over there in their own backyard.

[Raine]

37. Yup, they're being a way bit

over the top, geesh!

[RandySF]

9. Kiss our asses goodbye.

[sarisataka]

10. Did you not watch

The Twilight Zone marathon yesterday? They had several instructional episodes that covered just such an event

[Maru Kitteh]

12. I am very sorry people are throwing bad jokes at you. It's a reasonable question.

I should think in any situation like that, you should go to the most secure location available to you. Google emergency shelters in your city/county/area and settle on a plan. It will at the very least help you feel a little better - having a plan.

To all of us.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. Nothing I can do right now

To stop this shit. Trump is a monster. Using war to try to stay in the Whitehouse. I despise him, I hate him and I wish he'd have a heart attack ,he needs to GO AWAY.
Go away before he fucks up the country with his thoughtless whapping the hornet nest in the middle East
A hornet's nest that never had to become a dangerous mess. One that will blowback on us who aren't in the billionaire club before it hits the cowardly pigs and rabidly ignorant people that voted for the orange anus that refuse to stop trump.

[greytdemocrat]

28. Aaaaah

A hornet's nest that never had to become a dangerous mess.

You can't be serious.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

46. What do you mean about not being serious

I just can't tell what you mean by your answer. Can you clarify what you meant?

[ecstatic]

15. WTF? I took a little break from the news

And now I'm hearing about a new war?!

[greytdemocrat]

26. It's just a different dimension.

No worries.

[cwydro]

42. DU panic du jour.

I remember posts just like this during some Korean thing a year or so ago.

[EndlessWire]

49. It's okay

Here's another one: https://www.38north.org/2020/01/sinpo010320/

You do have to ask yourself why all the educated people are saying almost the same thing: that we should just consider ourselves at war.

Well, if some major light shows up in the sky, just don't look at it.

I live in an area of military activity. If I see anything unusual, I'll surely mention it here. Nothing so far.

[cwydro]

50. I won't hold my breath.

[keithbvadu2]

16. When the 3:00AM call comes in, Trump will already be awake, but too busy tweeting to answer it.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Perhaps Iran's response will be to go directly

after Chump himself. It could be a short presidency, after all!

[Norbert]

19. I live less than a half hour from a GE jet engine plant.

which means if a missile gets through we will be vaporized so there is not much for us to do. My dying words will be FUCK YOU tRUMP!

[dewsgirl]

27. I live within 10 minutes, from two different AFB's a fact

that did make me feel safe. Now I worry this area would likely be a target.

[UniteFightBack]

20. Omg you live in an embassy? I'm in Queens, NY so I'm not worried since New York is never a

target.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. Does anywhere even have air raid sirens any more?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. They'd use the weather sirens, I suppose.

[DeminPennswoods]

40. Yes, but they are now general emergeny sirens

I pass one everytime I drive to/from the local shopping plaza.

[liberaltrucker]

30. .38 hollow point to the temple

nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. You'd feel kinda silly if it was a false alarm.

Or....wait...if you went through with it, you wouldn't feel much of anything.



Carry on.

[Doreen]

34. I would cuddle with.my kitties but

they would be under the bed.

I don't know, go out on the street and sing "God Save The Queen?"

I know, I'm American but that just seems like a darkly sarcastic thing to do for my last breaths of life.

[BlueTsunami2018]

38. Why would they?

It’s not like Iran can hit us in any meaningful way. The most serious danger still comes from having this moron running things. Someone is going to pay for his idiotic actions but it won’t be here. The Middle East/gulf region is in for a lot more suffering.

[cwydro]

39. Oh good lord.

I wish there was a hair on fire emoji.

I remember the last time DU got into panic mode was something to do with Korea. And there were posts just like this, with some bravely swearing, “Not going to the shelters without my cats!”

Others practically weeping for all the death yet to come (which never did), saying stoically they were so glad they had lived most of their lives, but how sad for the young. And on, and on. And on.

[DeminPennswoods]

41. One thing to remember about the tweets

from people like Price, Nance, Rhodes, etc, is that these folks are immersed in national security all the time. They are paid to figure out worst-case scenarios and how to respond. When it's your job to do this, dire warnings are a significant part of it.

I specifically remember Richard Clark, a national security guru in the Bush 43 WH. He saw threats everywhere because that was his job.

[onenote]

43. Why would air raid sirens be going off in the US?

Do you think Iran has the capability of striking the US mainland with air craft or missiles?

The strike in Iraq was foolish. But scare mongering about it resulting in air raid sirens here in the US is stupid.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. They won't. Iran doesn't have delivery capability,

regardless of whatever other nuclear fuckery they might be up to. North Korea is working on it, though, thanks to His Lardship's ineptitude.

[onenote]

45. If air raid sirens are going off, it probably means you left your TV on to a WWII movie

[cwydro]

48. Lol.

This.

[Renew Deal]

51. lol

[mysteryowl]

47. Personally, I would perfer to be at ground zero.

It would be easier that way.

[Renew Deal]

53. Here is another suggestion

Don't click if you are sensitive to the sounds of war.

Link to tweet

[Still In Wisconsin]

54. Bend over...

and kiss your ass goodbye.

[brooklynite]

56. Please! What "air raid" are you expecting?

Iran doesn't have ICBMs or long-range bombers.

[alphafemale]

57. There won't be time for a siren. nt