Duck and cover, it’s just good science.
Ah, memories...
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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bulwark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
brokenlcd@feddit.it 11 months ago
Where i live it’s an area at high earthquake risk; they still teach kids to duck under the desks until the earthquake it’s over; then evacuate.
Sheltering from bombs does feel a little dumb; unless it’s for the same reasons as the earthquake: saving your head from the collapsing debris.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For the classic 1950’s atomic war scenario, probably more for flying glass and so forth.
Obviously it’s not going to save you from a direct hit. You need to get in a fridge to be protected from that sort of thing…
Serinus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And then you get to be extra sad when you can’t get out of the 1960s fridge.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only lived through a handful of earthquakes in the 10 years I lived in L.A. but maybe I should have gone through those drills in my midwestern school, because my reaction every single time wasn’t, “oh shit, an earthquake, better get somewhere safe,” it was, “oh cool! It’s an earthquake! I wonder if it will be bad?” And then I just sat there like an idiot until it ended. Thankfully, it was never bad.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 11 months ago
The only serious one i experienced happened in the morning; i was 13; i woke up and saw the fucking chandelier swinging; i started panickng, got my sister in my arms (5y), and started screaming for my dad an mum to get out (dad had already woken up because he felt something, but their bedroom only had floor lights) ; we were on the second floor, by the time we went down the roof had collapsed but the ceiling had held up fine ( only the half-rotten wooden frame broke, everything else held). I still have nightmares of waking up and seeing that chandelier swinging hard side to side.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I one that’s bad in your location it lasts longer, so you have time to get past that and decide to get under so those swinging lights and buckling walls don’t land on you.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always thought those were a Boomer-exclusive thing, too. Glad I never had to do it, in any case!
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I mean, if you’re far enough away to notice a bomb going off before the shockwave hits you putting something between you and the soon to collapse roof is probably your next best move.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I always thought it was about shattering windows. Bad place to be, overwhelmed emergency services and covered in deep cuts
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It was just about giving you a sense of control in a horrible situation. It was never going to save anyone.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are there manufacturing standards for school desks that include “strong enough to hold up the roof”?
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh man, that hit the nostalgia button hard in a very bizarre way. I was still using these in the early 90s. I can still picture my name, written in the teacher’s mesmerizingly neat handwriting, taped to the top corner.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No duck and cover for this Xer, but we did a shiton of stop, drop, and roll. Spontaneous combustion was apparently a big deal in my childhood.
numberfour002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m in neither boomer nor Gen X, but I remember these style of desks. Hated them.
Doombot1@lemmy.one 11 months ago
We used these in my elementary, middle, and high schools, and I went to HS in the mid 2010’s! And we did still do drills with them.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Nowadays that’s where you hide from a active shooter.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Actually you pile up all the desks in front of the door and turn the lights off so the shooter can’t see in the room and can’t get in if they try.
nifty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you mean US school mass shooting shield?
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Naw that’s a boomer thing. I’m Gen X, we didn’t do duck & cover. My dad did though lol. We did do tornado drills because we’re in the Midwest though.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow. I’m a 47-year-old Boomer.
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I was born in 1968. I definitely remember the duck and cover drills. Our school was a fallout shelter & they would rotate out the supplies every now and then. All the way up to high school. This is in the northeast.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah yes I do remember hiding in the black void under the table top, where existence can’t reach you
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
surely they still do that. even my younger siblings got their turns. we even got to watch the dumb old duck and cover video with the turtle.
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, just to double-check, the it’s-not-just-boomers proof is comments from fb, ya?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, if you ignore the text I wrote myself beneath the image I pasted. Which you apparently did.
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean tbf 1 line of text under two large photos is easy enough to miss if not expecting there to be text there. I’d recc putting full text above photo next time.
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Born too late for duck n cover drills.
Born too early for active shooter drills.
NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Shooter drills have everyone sit in the corner of the room with the lights off, shades down, door locked, and instructions to be quiet and attack anyone who goes through the door with whatever you can throw
Xephonian@retrolemmy.com 11 months ago
Gee, it’s almost like having a deadly weapon that can be wielded by almost anyone, and would do an excellent job at protecting those children, would be a good idea.
Naw, let the children fight off bullets with books and paperweights. Life’s a bitch - no sense in coddling them.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The fallout shelter at my jr high was turned into the cave all the theater nerds dwelled in. Now it probably a shooter shelter :(