Nuclear Bomb: You're Trapped In A Supermarket When It Hits (14 Days)

It is ten past two on a Tuesday, and you are standing at the freezers when the whole supermarket turns white. This is Day 1 to Day 14 after a nuclear flash fifteen miles away: one stockroom, one steel shelf, and one rule about the dust. How do you shelter inside a building made of glass? Do you wait for the radio, or for the clock? And who writes a new line on the cooler logbook every day at four o'clock, when nobody can get in? Fiction, built on real facts: A nuclear flash can blind you more than 10 miles away, even if you are not looking at it (US FEMA planning guidance). Fallout gives off more than half of its energy in the first hour, then fades fast (FEMA). After 7 hours, radiation falls to about one tenth of the 1-hour level (Science News). Taking off your outer layer of clothing can remove up to 90% of the radioactive dust (US CDC). Chapters 0:00 Day 1: the flash 1:34 Day 1: the building 3:45 Day 1: the clock 5:01 Day 2: the cooler and the food 6:47 Day 3: three knocks 8:33 Day 4: rule two 9:46 Day 5: what the glass took 11:05 Day 6: the rain 11:46 Day 7: the flour 12:30 Day 8: the arithmetic 13:01 Day 9: the top rack 13:48 Days 10-12: the radio 14:31 Day 14: the dock Days After The End: one stick figure against the end of the world, day by day. Fictional survival stories with real survival facts. Not professional safety advice. #nuclear #survival #apocalypse