Ok…this is getting fun. I was asked Francis “Frank” Steffan to appear on The Frank Show, on American Voice Radio. This makes the second time in less than a week to be on that network.

This being my second “real” radio interview on big time radio, I felt a lot better and was much happier with how the show went, including topics covered, and some darn good questions.

So, please give it a listen, by clicking the Play button below, or download the mp3 and add it to your Ipod to listen to later.

Comments are most welcome…

Rich

 

 Rich Fleetwood on FEMA, InfraGard, CERT, and Family Prepping: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I had my first live radio interview tonight, and was on the American Voice Radio network for 2 hours this evening. I was interviewed by Michael Lehman, and the topic of the day was family preparedness.

I’ve got the show right here. Just click the player button below and listen to the entire show…

 

 Rich Fleetwood on Civil Defense, Nuclear Preparedness and Fallout Shelter: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rich

Hi folks….

I’ve been doing a lot of scanning over the last many years, of a LOT of the huge library and collection of original government created civil defense, nuclear preparedness, nuclear war planning, and most specifically, nuclear fallout shelter documents I’ve amassed over the last 15 years.

I solved a mystery tonight, that had been vexing me for a couple of years.

The document named in the title above is probably the SINGLE best compendium of FALLOUT SHELTER RADIATION SHIELDING I have ever run across.

I’ve had the first 124 pages scanning in for almost three years, and had lost place of where I was.

In my move of my main computer system from a tiny desk in the corner of the bedroom, to a huge corner desk in the living room, I also brought out several of the boxes of prepping hardcopy in my collection. A small part of it consists of xerox copies of the originals that I had checked out from interlibrary loan, and couldn’t scan completely in time. My fix was to xerox what I didn’t scan, and set aside for future scanning.

In this repurposeing of my living room corner into a work area, I went through a LOT of material, added two new bookcases to the living room, and sorted out hundreds of books.

Amongst the misc. stuff….several xerox copies of things…some complete, others partial. The most vexing one was around 150 pages, that started with page “4-81″…and all throughout, no mention of the title of the source book.

Great stuff, including that most astounding piece of fallout shelter info I have found yet that I’ve never seen online…7 full pages of a TABLE OF MASS THICKNESSES…also known as appendix B of TR-20(Vol. 1).

Examples…Adobe 12″ thick gives a P.S.F (protection safety factor) of 116.
4″ common bricks PSF 40, Ceramic tiles PSF 3., 6″ Cinder Blocks PSF 30, etc, etc.

Very useful info.

So, in other words, *I FOUND THE MISSING HALF OF VOLUME 1*

My last big batch of scanning was in the 2nd full year (2004/2005) of my return to college life full time with my wife and kids. Well, all but my middle son have earned several degrees, and I’ve been able to bring some focus back into getting these docs put out to the masses, and finishing already started projects.

With all of the world seeming ready to fall apart at the seams (russian planes, stock woes, Iran borders, dogs and cats living together), I’ve had that little voice in the back of my head the past few weeks saying “finish your work…finish your work”.

A few of you that know me really well know that can mean a lot of things for me, but for this middle aged guy, finishing this scanning job and getting THIS manual online is that *one note * that rings true in my very near term responsibilities.

Here is the first 7 pages of the scan, and a shot of the cover.

and here is the pdf file of the Table of contents…

http://www.survivalring.org/TR-20(Vol_1)Shelter_design_and_Analysis(sample-TOC).pdf
(166k in size and 7 pages long)

I’ll put many hours into it this weekend.

Something tells me this kind of info really needs to be available NOW.

Here’s the short version of different kinds of nuke bursts, blast waves, radiation and fallout, decay rates, values for dose and dose rate formulas, radiation effects on the body, barrier effectiveness vs. photon energy, mass thickness for different kinds of protection, and on and on.

This puppy is chock full of MATH, way over my head, has multitudes of charts for figuring out doses, effects, and such, and fallout shelter analysis of simple building to complex angular radiation paths.

There will be a few who really get the math part, and most folks should be able to get enough info to create safe fallout shelter spaces in whereever they plan to shelter…IF they need to shelter.

Here is a taste of the math part….

So, stay tuned. I also have vols. 2 and 5 scanned in already. No luck on 3 or 4. I’m still looking for those.

Comments welcome….

Rich

Shane Connor of Ki4u.com, Nukalert fame, and other great prep sites asked me to convert this video into an online presentation.

In this video, Steve Jones of Physicians for Civil Defense, interviews Kirk Paradise, of Huntsville, Alabama Emergency Management and Madison County EMA. A very good discussion of what the recent history of the national fallout shelter program looked like, what was accomplished, and who was mostly responsible for the fallout shelter program in the United States falling apart because of decisions at the highest levels of government to not shelter our population.

This video goes into detail of what a city or county can do with data left over from the federal studies, and create a workable shelter plan for most of it’s population, before fallout shelter is needed. In the case of Huntsville, they are downwind from a nuclear power plant, and if the plant were to be attacked by terrorists, a fallout situation would be a very real issue.

Unfortunately, this 24 minute video had to be cut into three pieces, due to YouTube’s 10 minute video time limit. No problem. Below are all three videos in the proper order…Enjoy!

Rich

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Occasionally, I’ll receive emails to my old email accounts asking specific fallout shelter questions…some that make sense, and some that are completely off the wall.

This question arrived today, and it made sense. Hopefully you’ll bookmark this post and remember it someday, should you be thinking the same thing.

This was my response to him. Print it out and have it in your three ring emergency END OF THE WORLD binder in your Bug Out Bag.

Hi,

Yes, it is possible to have an emergency egress portal…but not neccessarily a window. You’ll need the protection of mass (dirt, sand, gravel, etc) to keep the gamma ray instrusion down, to avoid rad illness, immunodeficiency problems and general syptoms of death.

A quick overview of how…

Build your shelter underground, or in a corner of the basement. Use plenty of mass for 360 degree protection. Check out the shelter plans available on my website at www.survivalring.org .

On one wall with access to the yard, you’ll want to build what is essentially a window frame into the concrete/cinderblock well. After your shelter is done, but before you backfill the outer wall, fill that window frame with bricks and mortar…maybe two layers thick. Probably wouldn’t hurt to put several layers of plaster, mortar, or even a layer or two of fiberglass, over the inner and outer surfaces of this emergency egress point to waterproof the opening as much as possible.

Let it set for several days and harden appropriately. Then, backfill the outer surface of the area of that “egress portal” with coarse rock, then gravel, and a foot or two of earth.

Your external shell of your shelter will now be complete and protective to the best possible level.

Now, what do you do if you NEED this exit to get out…such as the rest of your home collapsing in the blast wave of a nearby nuclear detonation? First, wait…until possible fallout threat is past. Do your research on time needed to stay in shelter, have emergency food and water, several kinds of radios (am, fm, shortwave, police scanner, etc), and LISTEN for what is happening. If you cannot get out of your shelters main entrance after at least 10 to 14 days down there, you’ll need to use the egress portal.

Here is where the rest of your escape planning BEFOREHAND comes in.

When you finished your shelter, you will have stocked it. Add to that stock of supplies a couple of good quality pickaxes, hammers, chisels, and a couple of shovels. These are your EGRESS TOOLS.

Putting that brick and mortar filled portal in your shelter created a weak spot that you could manually dig out with good old manual hand tools.

To get out…use the tools, and hammer away to remove the bricks and mortar from that hole in the slab concrete (or whatever else you used for the rest of the shell of your shelter. Simply let the debris fall to the floor of the shelter, where you can sweep it away, kick it aside or climb on top of to help you get it. Might not hurt to have in your preps a couple of large empty barrels to let the debris fall into as you’re digging out.

As you get thru the bricks and mortar, the coarse rocks (which by the way, will help in keeping water from draining thru any cracks, by funnelling moisture (rain, etc) away from the egress portal, will start falling into the new opening, as well as the gravel on top of it, and then some of the earth…just let this all fall into the shelter/barrels/whatever. Use your shovel to dig up into the rest of the yard and grass that may be supported from the root system…and you should be out.

You might possibly have more debris on top of that egress hole. A good reason to have a couple of large 5 to 20 ton bottle jacks in your shelter for just this possibility, and a couple of 2×6 or 2×8 wood end pieces to brace the jack against the egress opening, to provide a solid foundation for the jacks to lift up any extreme weights. These could lift debris enough to get you to freedom and fresh air.

A basement shelter could be blocked completely should the house fall in on it…so a middle of the yard buried shelter might be the ultimate plan…less debris to have to lift directly off the emergency exit.

Hope this helps.

Rich

P.S. These are my other websites, where you will find thousands of pages of shelter info …I’ve been working on these for many years since…

www.survivalring.org

www.myfalloutshelter.com

www.theblastshelter.com

www.cosmicechoes.org

www.survivalcd.com

I just finished two college degrees…in web design, and electronic media .. and I’m continuing my education to finish a journalism degree in the next couple of years. I’m going to be producing a LOT more online and offline materials of just this kind of info.

Do some googling of survivalring, richard fleetwood wyoming, and fallout shelter…and you’ll find I’ve been very busy continuing my preparedness pursuits…

Some days I think it can. Other days…well, that is the reason I have spent years collecting thousands and thousands of pages of real, authentic nuclear survival documentation…as published and printed by the printing offices of the United States of America…and several other nations as well.

Then…articles like this one in the New Yorker get me to thinking again.

Are WE doing enough? Us? You? Me? The average citizen?

PLEASE comment…

Rich

This story was front page news for many of the nation’s largest newspapers this Sunday morning. I’m afraid I have to agree. The US has NEVER been prepared for ANY nuclear attack…terror, all out assault, or anything in between…except for our leaders. They have PLENTY of shelters for themselves.

Just none for we taxpayers…

THAT sucks…

Link to source…

U.S. unprepared for nuclear terror attack, experts say

12:44 AM CST on Friday, March 2, 2007
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – Although the Bush administration has warned repeatedly about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack and spent more than $300 billion to protect the homeland, the government remains ill-prepared to respond to a nuclear catastrophe.

Experts and government documents suggest that, absent a major preparedness push, the U.S. response to a mushroom cloud could be worse than the debacle after Hurricane Katrina, possibly contributing to civil disorder and costing thousands of lives.

“The United States is unprepared to mitigate the consequences of a nuclear attack,” Pentagon analyst John Brinkerhoff concluded in a July 31, 2005, draft of a confidential memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We were unable to find any group or office with a coherent approach to this very important aspect of homeland security. …

“This is a bad situation. The threat of a nuclear attack is real, and action is needed now to learn how to deal with one.”

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