In 3 hours a gas is coming to come and you don't know how long it's going to last, but you have to stay indoors while it is here, what are you going to do in those 3 hours?
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Being that I'm at work I'm thinking of what I would do from here. I think I would try the shops first, not the supermarket but the smaller convenience stores, get some tinned food, toilet paper and water maybe other things too. Head home, get all the plant pots inside as if it lasts a long time I would need fresh food and the plants would help with the oxygen supply. I would probably do a load of laundry, any washing up that needed doing and take a shower, so that if the water got contaminated I have done everything first. Fill up any containers I have with water and make sure anything I needed was charged up in case of a power cut. Find enough candles and matches/lighter. After that not sure probably eat and watch the news until it stopped playing.
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Anything short of an air tight chamber with an independent air supply, some way of testing the outside atmosphere, and provisions for long term survival would be futile. Best just sit back with a cool drink and do whatever makes your remaining few hours as enjoyable as possible.
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Funny this made me thing of a couple of years ago this scenario actually happened in my town. There was a gas leak at one of the mines and they put the town on lock down, complete with creepy WWII type sirens going off. They just told people to close all the windows and stay home. I slept through the whole thing lol!
Activated charchol. Its one thing I dont have yet. I'd fill my garden masks with it and lock up, taping the bathroom windows and set the exhaust on.
I have about 2 months worth of dry food stored at home, but only 160L of water at this stage. I have rolls of plastic sheeting, rolls of tape so I could tape up the windows. Ive actually been looking this week on how to make an air filter for a bunker/home with the charchol.
I have 3 seperate routes of travel if the threat is long term, an array of bags and wheelbarrows. I have 2 locations selected to stay if need be (one bush, one beach). I have a bow and arrow I could use for hunting and fishing rods and gear if the gas wipes out the truck route longer term.
The house is already full of aloe and spider plants but I do not have any other form of communication besides internet, so I'd be screwed if i left the shelter early 😛
I have about 2 months worth of dry food stored at home, but only 160L of water at this stage. I have rolls of plastic sheeting, rolls of tape so I could tape up the windows. Ive actually been looking this week on how to make an air filter for a bunker/home with the charchol.
I have 3 seperate routes of travel if the threat is long term, an array of bags and wheelbarrows. I have 2 locations selected to stay if need be (one bush, one beach). I have a bow and arrow I could use for hunting and fishing rods and gear if the gas wipes out the truck route longer term.
The house is already full of aloe and spider plants but I do not have any other form of communication besides internet, so I'd be screwed if i left the shelter early 😛
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Speaking for one that dutch ovens themselves on the regular at night, that unsuspecting gas can be a serious problem. Wish I could sleep with a gas mask.
On the serious side and unrelated to the query but, I remember when three hours used to seem like a long time, now it seems three hours are over in like an hour. Anyone else notice time speeding up?
On the serious side and unrelated to the query but, I remember when three hours used to seem like a long time, now it seems three hours are over in like an hour. Anyone else notice time speeding up?
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Its like when you're in high school and summer seems like such a LONG time...I guess time goes by quicker as you get older.
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If the premise given is that going indoors will do, but that being outside is dangerous, I'd stock up on food, get all the kids indoors and phone the parents of the kid who's currently visiting my kids. Then I'd figure out how dangerous the gas was to animals and from that decide if we had to shoot the horses or just keep them indoors with heaps of food until we could go out again.
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Yeah, anyone who goes outside is dead. Just tape all cracks -- door and windows and apply blankets or towels to the bottoms of any really wide openings you can't seal with tape or plastic. If your house is average and you do this, unless the poison is 100% lethal in any dose, you have a chance of survival.
The truth about most poisons is that there's a lethal dose. The dose is the poison. For those that are really lethal in very small doses, there's no need to do anything, b/c any exposure is going to kill you. Find your loved ones and tell them you love them and make your peace with whatever you believe in.
For those that will blow away in 3 hours, even something quite deadly, once it is gone, you aren't gonna die unless you're in it. Then stay indoors, and keep it from coming in. The key is to avoid exposure while it is out there. If you don't know what it is, barriers to entry are your best defense. Some poisons can be amplified by wet towels b/c they react with water to form an acid (for example). If it's something that will not react with the water, the water may help make the towel a better barrier by absorbing some of the gas. Look out for pinpoint pupils, urination, defecation, dizziness, ataxia in others, and death of small animals around you. Smaller things usually will succumb faster.
Panic is your enemy. You can do without water and food for up to three days if you're in good health. Air, about 60 seconds. Once respirations cease, it's six minutes to brain death. Water, you can go without drinking for 3 days, but you can get pretty ill by then. most normal people can go without water for a day without harm -- ask the religious -- many religions do 24 hour fasts. You can go without food for as much as 40 days, more , depending on your health, especially if you're not moving much. So worrying about stocking up? Not that important if the threat is gas outdoors.
The truth about most poisons is that there's a lethal dose. The dose is the poison. For those that are really lethal in very small doses, there's no need to do anything, b/c any exposure is going to kill you. Find your loved ones and tell them you love them and make your peace with whatever you believe in.
For those that will blow away in 3 hours, even something quite deadly, once it is gone, you aren't gonna die unless you're in it. Then stay indoors, and keep it from coming in. The key is to avoid exposure while it is out there. If you don't know what it is, barriers to entry are your best defense. Some poisons can be amplified by wet towels b/c they react with water to form an acid (for example). If it's something that will not react with the water, the water may help make the towel a better barrier by absorbing some of the gas. Look out for pinpoint pupils, urination, defecation, dizziness, ataxia in others, and death of small animals around you. Smaller things usually will succumb faster.
Panic is your enemy. You can do without water and food for up to three days if you're in good health. Air, about 60 seconds. Once respirations cease, it's six minutes to brain death. Water, you can go without drinking for 3 days, but you can get pretty ill by then. most normal people can go without water for a day without harm -- ask the religious -- many religions do 24 hour fasts. You can go without food for as much as 40 days, more , depending on your health, especially if you're not moving much. So worrying about stocking up? Not that important if the threat is gas outdoors.
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DeepBlueJoy
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Sleep is actually not a bad idea. You use less oxygen when you sleep. But if there was a change and you needed to do something, you wouldn't be aware...