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comrade1234 ◴[] No.45706462[source]
I'm pretty sure my shelter is under the grocery store across the street from me but the annoying thing is that they don't tell you where your shelter is until you need it. The locations are somewhat secret. I know the location of another civil shelter farther away with the entrance under a highway because it has signs saying it's a shelter...

When I lived in Washington DC instead of shelters everyone had an assigned route for escaping the city by car.

We have an interesting app here in Switzerland - AlertSwiss. It uses your location to warn you about local dangers, like toxic air from a building fire, to landslides, to bad water warnings... you can also see all alerts in Switzerland on a map of the country. Currently there are a couple of landslides and some fires.

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TheOtherHobbes ◴[] No.45706784[source]
How was escape by road was supposed to work? Wouldn't everyone be stuck in traffic as the bombs were falling?
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1. ProllyInfamous ◴[] No.45708734[source]
In Texas, they implement "hurricane lanes," which just means during disasters, you can legally drive on the shoulder. In practice, I've seen it where all lanes are made outbound-only.

If you live within 10 miles of a US Nuclear Facility like me, NRC requires they send an annual calendar marked with siren-testing dates and escape-route maps. You can request free iodine tablets, for use while you're irradiated in traffic.

But IMHO both examples are mostly just coping mechanisms, designed to give panic direction.