A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere. It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack on the United States. In any type of general disaster, lives can be saved if people are prepared for the emergency, and know what actions to take when it occurs.
This handbook, "In Time of Emergency," contains basic general information on both nuclear attack and major natural disasters. This general guidance supplements the specific instructions issued by local governments. Since special conditions may exist in some communities, the local instructions may be slightly different from this general guidance. In those cases, the local instructions should be followed. (Summary from Introduction)
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"Section [number] of In Time Of Emergency. - This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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End of recording
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intimeofemergency_##_civildefense.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. intimeofemergency_01_civildefense.mp3)
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My internet died today, so I had to go by memory on the section divisions, author name, etc. I do see I am numbering them wrong. Argh!
I also had to go totally from memory at the look of the fallout shelter sign in section 1. I had the text, but not the graphics. I will have to redo it a bit, I think. But feel free to PL these anyway.
Tricia, when I try to download the files, they are only 109 bytes in size and LV asks me for the uploader (!) password. Do you think the snafu is on my end?
Section 2 has an error at 2:45. The text reads "sand or salt" but you read "sand or silt." It does technically change the meaning of the words, but the sense of the sentence is intact (ie. the fall-out will be yay-big.) I leave it to your discretion if you want to change it. Otherwise PL OK.
What a cheerful piece, wot?
ETA: Just tried to update the MW and was denied access.
Gah! I forgot you're new enough that you have one of the temporary passwords to the MW. You should have access now.
Yeah, cheerful piece, for sure!
I remember the Fallout Shelter signs from when I was a child, but I wonder if they have taken them down nowadays; I don't remember seeing them as an adult.
My university still has a few buildings marked as fall-out shelters, but I think it's apathy about removing them more than someone is interested in actively maintaining public shelters.
