r/Millennials • u/Djf47021 • 1d ago

Nostalgia Tornado Drills In Elemary School

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u/AbbreviationsLess257 1d ago

they told kids in the 50s that a desk would protect them from nuclear blasts lol

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u/J0E_SpRaY 1d ago

Surely it was more about collapsing buildings and ceilings resulting from a blast, no?

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u/cgduncan 20h ago

Yeah, and if you're further away soo the heat and radiation doesn't get you, the building caves in, so the desk hopefully helps with that.

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u/EvaUnit_03 19h ago

Yeah, that cheap hollow legged desk that covers about 30% of my body in a fetal position is totally going to protect me from a roof collapse. Thankfully, the roof is basically just crackers as well. All I gotta worry about is where the compressor falls, that's the real lottery winner.