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Grammy23

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12. Yes, I do remember that show/movie. Seems like it was around 1984.

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:22 AM

Mar 2018

It was hyped endlessly and of course, we watched. Scared the bejeebers out of us. (My husband, my teenage son and my adult niece.) I Just remember the grim after effects of the people walking up a dirt road with rubble all around and sun blocked by clouds. No electricity and ALL communications cut off. Very little food. Sick and dying people everywhere. It was very sobering and hopeless, as I recall. I do not remember the panel discussion afterward. I was probably curled up in a fetal position sobbing.

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What would happen if a Nuclear Bomb went off in your backyard. Sobering [View all] tomhagen Mar 2018 OP

I would be vaporized vlyons Mar 2018 #1

Indeed and probably among the 'lucky' if that were to happen. hlthe2b Mar 2018 #2

That's right, I would never even know vlyons Mar 2018 #4

And you wouldn't even have time to realize what just happened. sdfernando Mar 2018 #3

I wouldn't be around long enough to even notice it. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2018 #5

If a nuclear bomb ever hits my city I sincerely hope it drops right in my back yard. Binkie The Clown Mar 2018 #6

Does anyone here remember the tv special The Day After? bobbieinok Mar 2018 #7

Yes, I do remember that show/movie. Seems like it was around 1984. Grammy23 Mar 2018 #12

I remember watching the movie On the Beach Skittles Apr 2018 #15

You can watch it on YouTube Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2018 #16

In my backyard are.... SonofDonald Mar 2018 #8

I'm just down the road from JBLM Evergreen Emerald Mar 2018 #13

I would be Dead? Canoe52 Mar 2018 #9

if it hits pearl harbor, from beach by my house I get to see the cloud but no other effects, msongs Mar 2018 #10

well rownesheck Mar 2018 #11

If it hit the Port of Los Angeles we would survive. denbot Apr 2018 #14