Would you have lasted in 1983?

I was 16 at the time.

If the Doomsday: 1983 Wikia map/list are anything to go by (that would have been in late September 1983 - just before my birhtday), then I would have survived in at least the short term - as the nearest strike was almost 70 miles from me, and all others were over 150 miles away. Plus, it was a low-density rural area with plenty of intensive farming. I checked the weather records on wunderground.com, so I might've got grazed by the fallout. But my family has a hunting camp about an hour further away that definitely would not get hit by fallout - and the nearest strike still about 120 miles away and definitely blowing away from the camp.

Now whether I would have survived the breakdown of civilization, especially food supply (even with hunting and gardening) is a different story. How that would've turn out is anybody's guess - even for low-density areas like I grew up in. Even with all this, I'd have a better chance of surviving to the present than most US people. But this kind of thing is relative, and I certainly would not find it a pleasant experience for years and years.
 
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