So what does a West Coaster do now?

[Freeper]

Arcana  (59 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:30 PM
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So what does a West Coaster do now?
   
I live in Arizona, which seems to be in the path of the incoming jetstream carrying the radiation from Japan.

My concern is that the radiation detected is going to be much worse and much more incoming than stated, and the possibility of plutonium isotopes which may be ingested, inhaled, or contaminating food.

I know many people in the path of the jetstream and aren't sure what to tell them.

I know you guys aren't experts, but I'm sure you guys have a better idea what's going on than I do, and my brother who has been listening to Alex Jones lately is of course panicking like crazy; and a part of me is wondering if he's right.

Some ideas are hoarding food that may come from California or other local sources, dry milk, frozen fruits and vegetables. I know this is going to sound crazy but if I can't go to El Paso or Florida perhaps sealing the doors and windows with duct tape for awhile? Of course while stocking plants to maintain oxygen levels. I haven't been able to get ahold of a Geiger counter yet though.

And what are you guys doing?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x685012

Let uncle Freeper help you out here,
First check under your sink for a bottle of ammonia and a bottle of Clorox (or any store brand bleach).
Secondly get a bucket, pour both the bottles in the bucket, inhale deeply and that will protect you from any radiation poisoning.

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:31 PM
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1. I'm watching reruns of "Sanford and Son" and thinking about
   
cleaning up the cat litter boxes.

You going to spend some time with Stinky the clown?

lol

cutlassmama  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:32 PM
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2. Canned food, canned milk, bottled water, toilet paper

That way you can eat, drink and crap one more time before you die.

Upton  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:32 PM
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3. I live about 40 miles from the WA coast...
   
I'm just going to kick back, smoke a bowl, and watch some basketball...

Sounds like Obama's schedule.

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:34 PM
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9. We're about the same distance in, and the coastal winds
   
barrel up the canyon here every afternoon.

May not be a good week to buy a cow.

lol

Drale  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:33 PM
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4. I know theres a ton of paranoia going on around here lately
   
but I still believe that if the radiation gets to dangerous levels they will inform people so that they can either evacuate or take some sort of precautions.

Ya think?

Autumn  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:35 PM
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10. Drinking whiskey,
   
but I'm in CO. I did take our nadinbrzezinski advice and bought milk and filled up my freezer with veggies. And stocked up on booze.

*snort* 

dbackjon  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:35 PM
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11. 1st - stop listening to anyone that listens to Alex Jones
   
2nd - stop panicing. You'll cut your life expectancy more by the stress of worrying than any radiation particles.

nadinbrzezinski  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:42 PM
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16. Get milk in tetrapack
   
today or tomorrow...

Powedered works too.

No cheese

Soy milk.

Some canned goods if like me, in the off chance you may get rain on local places.

After that, relax... the current spike in radiation is much lower than my foot x-ray by orders of magnitude.

OH and the particles, they are my concern too... but that is where getting that milk comes in, as if we have any of that... it will concentrate on the milk... cows are really efficient about it.

I got milk for us, and milk for my sister.

Oh and rice... got a large bag too, since we eat a lot and that may come from areas that might get some of that.

But after that... relax. We are in pretty good shape.

Unless that radiation slips in through a crack in the window.

demosincebirth  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:42 PM
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17. Nothing. Like I usually do.
   

he's honest at least.

DBoon  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:44 PM
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18. I'm staying the hell away from granite
   


    Granite is a natural source of radiation, like most natural stones. However, some granites have been reported to have higher radioactivity thereby raising some concerns about their safety.

    Some granites contain around 10 to 20 parts per million of uranium. By contrast, more mafic rocks such as tonalite, gabbro or diorite have 1 to 5 ppm uranium, and limestones and sedimentary rocks usually have equally low amounts. Many large granite plutons are the sources for palaeochannel-hosted or roll front uranium ore deposits, where the uranium washes into the sediments from the granite uplands and associated, often highly radioactive, pegmatites. Granite could be considered a potential natural radiological hazard as, for instance, villages located over granite may be susceptible to higher doses of radiation than other communities.<10> Cellars and basements sunk into soils over granite can become a trap for radon gas, which is formed by the decay of uranium.<11> Radon can also be introduced into houses by wells drilled into granite.<12> Radon gas poses significant health concerns, and is the number two cause of lung cancer in the US behind smoking.<12>



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite

 

[miskie]

Heh - Granite

My nearly 150 year old home's basement is made from gigantic granite blocks. ZOMG The tra-gee-dee !!!11!! And here I am, alive and amazingly cancer free..

And Denver Colorado -- Might as well evacuate the entire city !!!11!!!! as well as the entire state of New Hampshire..

Here is a clue, primitives. SOME forms of radiation are dangerous, but as a species, we evolved surrounded by it. Small amounts of exposure aren't going to kill you, nor will it give you cancer, make you sterile, or all of the other crap the anti-nuke gang have been chirping about since Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

What radiation flies over will be both degraded, and spread out over a wide area - your exposure will be negligible at best. 'Heavy Hydrogen' is the only stuff that will make it over without degrading, but its radiation is so weak it cant penetrate skin. The nitrogen will be fully degraded, as its half-life is 7 seconds, and the iodine will be mostly degraded, as its half-life is 8 days. There is no report of any massive release of anything more deadly.

*Yes, I know that the granite post was in jest - but I also know that some chicken-little DUmmy idiots are gonna panic over granite.

[jukin]

I'm not going to eat any bananas this week.

[TVDOC]

So what does a West Coaster do now?

Run around in circles like a fag.....just like you usually do....

(Note to self:  Where's that graphic when I really need it??)

doc

[LC EFA]

Heh - Granite

My nearly 150 year old home's basement is made from gigantic granite blocks. ZOMG The tra-gee-dee !!!11!! And here I am, alive and amazingly cancer free..

And Denver Colorado -- Might as well evacuate the entire city !!!11!!!! as well as the entire state of New Hampshire..

Here is a clue, primitives. SOME forms of radiation are dangerous, but as a species, we evolved surrounded by it. Small amounts of exposure aren't going to kill you, nor will it give you cancer, make you sterile, or all of the other crap the anti-nuke gang have been chirping about since Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

What radiation flies over will be both degraded, and spread out over a wide area - your exposure will be negligible at best. 'Heavy Hydrogen' is the only stuff that will make it over without degrading, but its radiation is so weak it cant penetrate skin. The nitrogen will be fully degraded, as its half-life is 7 seconds, and the iodine will be mostly degraded, as its half-life is 8 days. There is no report of any massive release of anything more deadly.

*Yes, I know that the granite post was in jest - but I also know that some chicken-little DUmmy idiots are gonna panic over granite.

Shush !

Watching them run around like panicking rodents is great entertainment. Don't tip them off or I'll have to find something more productive to do.
 

[Evil_Conservative]

I live in Nevada.  I just keep going about my day.  I walked to Walmart this morning.  Bought some chicken for our dinner.  We didn't die.

[GOBUCKS]

Retired submarine captains are hoarding canned milk. And shouting Dive!, Dive!, Dive!

[Freeper]

I live in Nevada.  I just keep going about my day.  I walked to Walmart this morning.  Bought some chicken for our dinner.  We didn't die.

I bet you drove your Jag to wal mart, meanwhile the guy in the Ford LTD was buying cat food to feed his 20 kids.

 

[Evil_Conservative]

I bet you drove your Jag to wal mart, meanwhile the guy in the Ford LTD was buying cat food to feed his 20 kids.

 

Nah, we walked.  I took the stroller out and headed for my five minute, peaceful (yet hazy) walk to the store.  It was eerily hazy to the west.  I kind of laughed and thought about Nadin running around like a chicken with her head cut off.  I only take out my "rich person" car when it's raining or too windy to walk to the store... or if we are buying something large that I can't put at the bottom of the stroller.

Just doing my part to save the Earf.

[Freeper]

Nah, we walked.  I took the stroller out and headed for my five minute, peaceful (yet hazy) walk to the store.  It was eerily hazy to the west.  I kind of laughed and thought about Nadin running around like a chicken with her head cut off.  I only take out my "rich person" car when it's raining or too windy to walk to the store... or if we are buying something large that I can't put at the bottom of the stroller.

Just doing my part to save the Earf.

You didn't burn gas to go there? What kind of evil repug are you?
 

[BEG]

So what does a West Coaster do now?

I went and got my hair cut and colored, oh and bought some shine spray for my hair.

[Evil_Conservative]

You didn't burn gas to go there? What kind of evil repug are you?
 

Next time, I will take the car out and do a massive burn out all the way to Walmart.

[Freeper]

Next time, I will take the car out and do a massive burn out all the way to Walmart.

Much better, now get on your knees and beg Teh Rove for forgiveness.
 

[AprilRazz]

I drove past an aircraft carrier and a couple of submarines today with my windows down.

[GOBUCKS]

I drove past an aircraft carrier and a couple of submarines today with my windows down.

The subs will have to stay there until  they can hire new captains.

[jukin]

Retired submarine captains are hoarding canned milk. And shouting Dive!, Dive!, Dive!

I don't care who you are that there is funny. H5

[miskie]

You didn't burn gas to go there? What kind of evil repug are you?
 

She can fix it by finding a couple of old tires to set on fire.. perhaps ones mounted on a '78 Skylark..

[FreeBorn]

"Some ideas are hoarding food that may come from California or other local sources, dry milk, frozen fruits and vegetables. I know this is going to sound crazy but if I can't go to El Paso or Florida perhaps sealing the doors and windows with duct tape for awhile? Of course while stocking plants to maintain oxygen levels. I haven't been able to get ahold of a Geiger counter yet though".

Wouldn't it be so much easier for this person to just put a Walmart bag over her head and duct tape it around her

neck until all the worries blow over? Just sayin'... 

[PatriotGame]

DBoon  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:44 PM
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18. I'm staying the hell away from granite
   


    Granite is a natural source of radiation, like most natural stones. However, some granites have been reported to have higher radioactivity thereby raising some concerns about their safety.

    Some granites contain around 10 to 20 parts per million of uranium. By contrast, more mafic rocks such as tonalite, gabbro or diorite have 1 to 5 ppm uranium, and limestones and sedimentary rocks usually have equally low amounts. Many large granite plutons are the sources for palaeochannel-hosted or roll front uranium ore deposits, where the uranium washes into the sediments from the granite uplands and associated, often highly radioactive, pegmatites. Granite could be considered a potential natural radiological hazard as, for instance, villages located over granite may be susceptible to higher doses of radiation than other communities.<10> Cellars and basements sunk into soils over granite can become a trap for radon gas, which is formed by the decay of uranium.<11> Radon can also be introduced into houses by wells drilled into granite.<12> Radon gas poses significant health concerns, and is the number two cause of lung cancer in the US behind smoking.<12>

SO, I should toss the granite based toilet paper because molecules from Pluto and Uranus will travel from my rectum to my brain, launch it into DUmmy mode, and make me stupid?

Gotcha...

[PatriotGame]

I went and got my hair cut and colored, oh and bought some shine spray for my hair.

I popped the cap on a 5th of Chivas Regal, swilled, and have zero else to contribute to this thread!

I am going to run outside, lie down in the gutter, and inhale deeply. Radiation be damned!

(when you're dead, your 0bama-Care tax debt goes to zero)

[BlueStateSaint]

Next time, I will take the car out and do a massive burn out all the way to Walmart.

Don't do this . . .

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aU09WT5rXg[/youtube]

From about the :36 mark.  It's a riot.

[AprilRazz]

The subs will have to stay there until  they can hire new captains.

I hope they do that soon. The milk is probably running out.

[ScubaGuy]

After that, relax... the current spike in radiation is much lower than my foot x-ray by orders of magnitude.

Every time she has to mention her foot x-ray. If you read the older posts she had the x-ray due to a broken toe.

Why would someone who claims to be an EMT get an x-ray for a broken toe?  The first time I broke a toe I went to the medical office, the doc looked at it and said "Yep, it's a broken toe."  I asked him what should be done and he told me try not to put any weight on it since that might hurt.

She's treating it like it was some major injury.

[Happy Fun Ball]

Arcana  (59 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-18-11 07:30 PM
Original message
So what does a West Coaster do now?
   
I live in Arizona, which seems to be in the path of the incoming jetstream carrying the radiation from Japan.

My concern is that the radiation detected is going to be much worse and much more incoming than stated, and the possibility of plutonium isotopes which may be ingested, inhaled, or contaminating food.

I know many people in the path of the jetstream and aren't sure what to tell them.

I know you guys aren't experts, but I'm sure you guys have a better idea what's going on than I do, and my brother who has been listening to Alex Jones lately is of course panicking like crazy; and a part of me is wondering if he's right.

Some ideas are hoarding food that may come from California or other local sources, dry milk, frozen fruits and vegetables. I know this is going to sound crazy but if I can't go to El Paso or Florida perhaps sealing the doors and windows with duct tape for awhile? Of course while stocking plants to maintain oxygen levels. I haven't been able to get ahold of a Geiger counter yet though.

And what are you guys doing?

[DLR Pyro]

I'm going to Disneyland.