

Remember, you will probably be in the shelter for a while, several weeks is not unthinkable, so bring games, toys, whatever to keep busy.īlock the entryway to your shelter with another door/mattress or whatever you have. Throw the bag out of your shelter when it becomes obnoxious. Line the bucket with a bag, use it, then throw in sawdust which will absorb much of the odor. If time is too short, you can make a sawdust toilet: 5-6 gallon plastic bucket, a toilet seat, and a lot of sawdust, plus thick garbage bags.

Put food, blankets, light, water, medicines, whatever you need inside your shelter so you don't need to come out. Tape plastic to the windows to keep radioactive dust and debris from coming in through cracks. In the room right above the corner of the basement you are making a shelter in, turn bookcases over and throw as much bulk on the floor as you can. The more bulk you put between you and radiation, the more protection you will have. Put anything else large you have up against the mattresses. Put every mattress you have up against the doors.

If you have a basement, take off enough doors in your house and lean them up against the basement wall, from a corner to as far down as you want protected space.
