Quizzes and Guides for the End of the World as We Know It
Can you catch plague just by standing next to someone who has it? How many inches of concrete do you need between you and radioactive fallout? How do you survive a hurricane, tsunami, tornado, earthquake, chemical or biological emergency?
The new book, Who Survives? A Survival Manual in Disguise, contains hundreds of such questions (and answers) designed to test people's survival savvy, while simultaneously teaching them the skills they may lack.
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Typically, Survival-Quiz.com is concerned with helping people survive a local or regional disaster such as a flood or tornado. However, this article is about mega disaster.
Below is a list of 26 potential mega disasters, some more likely than others.
Mega Disasters Possible Within the Century:
Divine Intervention
Nuclear war
Climate change and ecological collapse
Toxic pollution
Peak oil
Nuclear disasters
Disease and super bugs
Biological warfare
Artificial Intelligence
Nanotechnology
World population and agricultural crisis
Biotechnology and y-chromosome
Volcanoes
Sun activity
Asteroid strike
Black hole from particle accelerator
Planet X
Gamma ray burst
Omega point
Low-energy bubble nucleation
Aliens attack Earth
Rogue black hole
Geomagnetic pole reversal
Unsustainable production and consumption
Earthquakes and mega tsunamis
Others?
Whew! That is some scary list. Some likelier than others.
ONE is all it takes. What is more likely? A rogue black hole, divine intervention, or nuclear Armageddon?
First radiation pass. (Chernobyl had at least seven.)
As we now know, three reactors melted down in the first few days at Fukushima, a large amount of radioactive fuel burnt into the air, millions of tons of radioactive water poured into the ocean, and more.
It continues to worsen and authorities don’t have much to offer, in fact, any comments may be suspect.
“Hot spots” of significant radiation now reach into Tokyo. There are reports that radioactive sewage slag has been recycled into building materials ”[with] radiation from Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter” and at sites 30km from the nuclear disaster, Geiger counters “showed radiation exceeding 1.48 million becquerels per square meter.”
Farmers 300km (186 miles) south of the nuclear disaster had cesium contamination and many forced to destroy their crops.
In eight US cities, infant mortality spiked and doctors blame the radiation spike just like after Chernobyl. Radiation in milk and in drinking water spiked clear across the US and Europe just days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Independent experts say Fukushima is 20 times worse than Chernobyl.
Particles You Don’t Want to Consume
Most radioactive emissions dissipate quickly, but many particles that you don’t want to consume are attracted to certain areas of your body and are proven to have very bad long-term genetic effects.
Besides drinking water and milk products, vegetation, animals including sea life, and air filters accumulate these toxic particles.
With widespread contamination how does the buyer know that a purchase is free of radiation?
Even according to authorities, absent a Geiger counter at the supermarket, it’s impossible to know.
Check out the fun, new book Who Survives, A Survival Manual in Disguise with quizzes designed to help you learn how to survive almost any disaster, including nuclear and flood.
Quizzes and Guides for the End of the World as We Know It
Can you catch plague just by standing next to someone who has it?
How many inches of concrete do you need between you and radioactive fallout?
How do you survive a hurricane, tsunami, tornado, earthquake, chemical or biological emergency?
The new book, Who Survives? A Survival Manual in Disguise, contains hundreds of such questions (and answers) designed to test people’s survival savvy, while simultaneously teaching them the skills they may lack.
Fun learning!
Quiz your family, friends, and coworkers. Great for classrooms, meetings, parties, and long trips.
In just a few weeks, the upper Missouri River basin has received almost an average year`s worth of rainfall.
Even worse, the forecast snow melt runoff is more than double the normal across the upper portion of the river system and in some places it is seven times normal.
These conditions have resulted in regional reservoirs nearing maximum levels.
Record releases have begun at Gavin’s Point dam located to the west of Yankton, South Dakota.
Water releases at several dams have been increased to 150,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and will continue for at least the next several weeks. To get a sense of proportions, a release rate of 150,000 cfs would fill the dimensions of a football field 156 ft deep in one minute and the previous high release was 70,000 cfs in 1997.
These extremely high flows, combined with normal rainfall, are predicted to result in record flooding along the Missouri River.
How to Protect Yourself from Flood
Knowing how to protect yourself can lessen the danger from flood. Here are ideas to help:
Disasters are combining into a probable catastrophe in the central US. The Missouri River is above 100-year flood stage, several major dams are likely to fail, and a nuclear power plant cited for a lack of flood preparedness is in danger.
The Fort Peck Dam in Montana is built with a flawed design since hydraulic-filled dams are prone to almost instant collapse and the dam is under a lot of stress from a record amount of water — with much more on the way.
A failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of five downstream dams. It probably would wreck every bridge, highway, pipeline, and power line and split the heartland of the US.
Besides Fort Peck, Garrison, Oahe and three other downstream earthen dams would have to catch and hold a massive amount of water, an area covering nearly 250 square miles 100 feet deep. But earthen dams, when overtopped with floodwater, do not stand. They break and erode away, usually within an hour. All are full.
US Nuclear Plant Fire and News Blackout
Massive flooding is causing the nuclear power plant at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska to go down. Rising waters of the Missouri River are already lapping at the walls of the sand-bagged nuclear plant.
The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle fuel rod pools on June 7 after the plant was deluged with water from the historic flooding of the Missouri River. This resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area.
A fire in an electrical switch room briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding a large amount of nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant just 20 minutes from downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The plant is already operating under a heightened level of alert because of flooding on the Missouri River.
The nuclear facility is surrounded by flood waters but authorities say the dam, berms, and sandbags will keep it dry, while waters are anticipated to rise above the level of the stated safety features.
Nuclear News Blackout
According to foreign sources, the Obama Administration has ordered a news blackout relating to the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant. Censoring of this event for “political purposes” risks a “serious blowback” from the American public should they gain knowledge of this event being hidden from them.
How to Protect Yourself from Flood or Radiation
Knowing how to protect yourself can lessen the danger from flood and radiation. Here are ideas to help:
Check out the fun, new bookWho Survives, A Survival Manual in Disguise with quizzes designed to help you learn how to survive almost any disaster, including nuclear and flood.
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In researching these quizzes, I tried to find info from experts who seemed to know what they were talking about, as opposed to the other kind. And I aimed to get multiple confirmations of the facts I’ve included.
Sources I used included Cresson Kearny’s Nuclear Survival Skills, The U.S. Army Survival Manual, The Red Cross, many guides to biological, chemical, natural, and nuclear disasters, many survival and first aid guidebooks, and interviews with experts.
Quizzes and Guides for the End of the World as We Know It
Can you catch plague just by standing next to someone who has it? How many inches of concrete do you need between you and radioactive fallout? How do you survive a hurricane, tsunami, tornado, earthquake, chemical or biological emergency?
The new book, Who Survives? A Survival Manual in Disguise, contains hundreds of such questions (and answers) designed to test people's survival savvy, while simultaneously teaching them the skills they may lack.
Fun learning!
Quiz your family, friends, and coworkers. Great for classrooms, meetings, and parties.
Disasters can be personal, regional, or global — and they can be endurable or terminal.
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