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Originally Posted by master3004
I talked with my wife today about the best options for us if Seattle gets nuked. (We are about 15 miles east, well out of the blast radius of a direct hit, but I'm not able to find a ton of info on just how far the incidental damage would carry. Our plan of action is to get into the car and try to get over the cascades before the roads become clogged upon hearing that Seattle is the target of a launched missle.)
This is a conversation that happened in real life. Holy ****.
I found this link from an article on Business Insider:
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/.
I live in Baltimore, and it looks like if the wind was blowing north from DC, a strike on DC would leave me in the path of fallout that could reach north of even here.
But it would be a (relatively) narrow band of fallout, so basically you want to get away from the strike, but perhaps more importantly you want to travel perpendicular to the direction of the wind until you're out of the fallout path.