The Journalism group for our EMAC 2321 presentations assigned all students in the class to write a blog which turned a scene from a movie into a news article, using the inverted Pyramid writing structure…Here we go, its just a movie!
Two men, separated by distance and the impervious cloud of radiation falling upon them both, converse on the only two radios still known to be in existence. When does not matter, where, was of no use anymore. All that could be related were the facts. Joe Huxley advised Dr. Oaks that the radiation was still holding at 50 rads per hour, a dangerous level. He thought the radiation from the nuclear bombs would have demolished by now, days after the world ended, so it must have meant they were taking the fallout radiation from the titan missile bases west of them.
When would it be safe? It would never be safe to venture out of their fallout shelters. Unless the radiation fell below acceptable rates, 2 rads an hour…If and when they could emerge and begin to rebuild their destroyed lives and society, was unknown.
The lines and mobs waiting at the hospital entrances were unbearable, as people died left and right, casualties from an all too unintimate battle, the lucky few who had access to care were left wondering what was going to happen, what hope was left remaining? A pregnant woman ready to deliver her child is quoted as saying:
“Hope for what? What do you think is going to happen out there? You think we’re going to sweep up the dead and fill in a couple of holes and build some supermarkets? You think all those people left alive out there are going to say, “Oh, I’m sorry. It wasn’t my fault. Let’s kiss and make up”? We knew the score. We knew all about bombs, we knew all about fallout. We knew this could happen for forty years. But nobody was interested.”
Nobody was interested, peace sells, but no one is buying…Only time will tell who lives and dies, there is no survival of the fittest when radiation is cooking you from the inside out. Only time.