[ravi-delia]

Eh people lived and died for generations doing awful subsistence farming and watching half their children die (if they didn't die in childbirth themselves). Not getting acute radiation poisoning and dying painfully over days in one of the worst ways possible for the low low cost of having a basement and keeping some water in it seems within the cards. I guess you could just kill yourself and your family immediately, which would also prevent a slow agonizing death from radiation poisoning, but I don't hate my basement enough to go out and buy a gun.