How to survive the shelling
Survival / / December 23, 2019
Our reader under the name Brer Rabbit, who spent three years in the territory of the fighting, tells how to behave during the shelling, to remain unscathed.
instead of introduction
Every modern war - is primarily a ping-pong artillery suffered by increasingly civilians. They are actors and reluctant for news outlets, and a human shield, and the argument for political debate. Civil did not say when to hide in bomb shelters, and housing their lives are not worth absolutely nothing, and the chance of surviving during the shelling is much less than that of the military. Therefore, if you find yourself in a combat zone, it is important to know how to behave.
Concise Dictionary:
- Minus, fly away, outgoing - artillery volleys.
- Plus, Destination, gifts - falling rounds.
- Ping Pong - mutual shelling.
As shots are fired?
Some of the most popular sounds of shelling in the news, especially when correspondents, openly, in full growth flaunt under these sounds to the camera - it's outgoing bursts of anti-aircraft guns, which are used mainly for destruction drones. Instead of the arrival of enemy shells, as the journalists say.
Sounds of these arrivals - it is heavy, with a characteristic bang when released into the home, and more deaf, if the projectile hits the ground.
82-millimeter mines, the smallest of use, publish in flight characteristic whistle, 120mm - hissing jet tank shells - with nothing comparable to howl.
"Grad" rockets, and other generally can not be heard during the flight. Outgoing volley of "Grad" recalls the sound poured into the pea table.
Many people who lived in a war zone than a year, still confused volleys and arrival, relying only on the evaluation of ideological preferences.
What at first sounds of shells?
Fall where you are, and wait out the shelling there. Change the location only in extreme cases. Listen and at the same time keep an eye a place to hide. You need to catch the rhythm: the sound of the volley, the flight time of the projectile and fall. In seconds before falling from the salvo and start to run immediately after arrival. You need to drop a couple of seconds before the calculated time for the next hit. If running two or more guns, think of the latter.
Open your mouth and close his ears. This will prevent concussions and keep hearing under especially close explosions. If it so happened that after you have ceased to hear arrivals, do not panic. Usually, if there is physical damage, hearing restored within 3-7 days. Close your eyes to protect them from dust and rock dust.
Where to hide?
The lower you are in relation to the ground, the better. Subways, basements, sewers hatches (provided that there is not belching steam), ditches, trenches, and even a high curb. You can use any terrain, which can protect you from debris. At the time of the explosion fragments fly upwards and outwards at a tangent, so the lower the relative level of the ground you lie down, the higher the chances to remain unharmed.
In no case do not hide in the walls of buildings. When you hit the wall you can injure the rubble of bricks, concrete or even fill up.
The same applies to windows and storefronts, one small size window after the explosion turns into a bucket of small fragments, some of which flies out to the street and can seriously injure you.
Avoid various piles of boxes, containers and other items that you can fill up even from the shock wave. It is not necessary to climb under the car and they did not save you and protect you from debris.
What if nearby military?
If your city is on the frontline in the kindergarten, school or in front of your home warehouse settled the military - pack your things and leave. Maybe in a day after leaving your house fly first shells.
Similarly proceed when a checkpoint near the house or military equipment. The sooner you leave, the more quickly adapt to the new place and the higher the chances to stay alive. With Lodging say goodbye: a whole you will not see it.
What if I can not leave now?
If you live in a private home and shelling the area become regular, reload the window openings with sandbags. This, of course, will not save from a direct hit, but will protect from shrapnel and bullets.
The apartment is possible to make a permutation of furniture and wardrobes close windows, shelves stuffed with books at the windows or other things. The tighter, the better.
Obkleyte glass windows with tape - it will not give them to crumble into many small fragments. Importantly, do not forget at least once a year to tear off adhesive tape and glue a new, differently in due course he pripechotsya firmly, pull out it will be a serious problem.
Where safer in the room?
The safest place during attacks (it is also the place of your lodging) should be an internal room, preferably with bearing walls, without windows or with windows facing the wall of another house. Take care of the rug on the floor or karemat.
The Internet is often written that the attacks do not last more than 20 minutes. This is nonsense of people far removed from the war. Sometimes you have to spend on the floor all night.
If possible, cover the top with a thick blanket - it is additional protection from splinters on how the decline of, and on the stone powder and glass.
Do not waste your time on the descent into the basement, if you live on the upper floors. It is better to go in the opening of the door or on the landing. Projectile equally likely to hit in the ninth, and the third floor at the time when you run up the stairs. Do not take risks because of the useless predvizheny.
What if the shooting caught on the road?
If you are driving around in a car on the line of contact - do not close the window. It will monitor the situation, in which case fast to stop and get out of the car.
Even if the street is biting cold, keep the car windows open until you move out of range attacks.
Typically, drivers who go to such places and live on the frontline area, a very intelligent and instantly responsive to all people. Do not sow panic and do not give advice to stop the car or press the pedal to the floor, especially if you're at a party. The driver can decide for itself on the situation, the best way to act.
I'm so scared. How to deal with emotions?
Try to calm down. Atheists can count to a hundred believers - pray. And those and others - try to breathe deeply and evenly.
Whatever is happening around, the main thing - do not panic. No need to run, especially when around people. Someone can follow your stupid suit. Very often women are lost in such situations may freeze in place or run. Pushed them to the ground (to spit on mud puddles and debris underfoot) and let's not move.
If you were under fire a woman or a child, holding them by the hand, and let's not straighten up and run. Do not be afraid to pay a couple of slap to bring in a sense.
If it is absolutely unbearable - you can scream. Under fire scared everyone, no exceptions.
A typical reaction of the organism during the bombardment - is an instant release of a crazy dose of adrenaline in the blood. An effect that can not be obtained or when skydiving, nor in time of the alloy on the mountain rivers. Palpitations, high heart rate, pressure surges, and numbness. At these moments, your body burns at an accelerated pace the resources allotted to you years of living in minutes.
What to do when the shots died down?
Carefully inspect yourself and loved ones after the shelling in the case if there were a number of arrivals. Perhaps someone was wounded, but from an overabundance of adrenaline people did not feel right.
Make sure that no fires in your home, apartment or neighbors. If there were direct hits, call the fire department and ambulance. Emergency services not allowed to leave until the end of the shelling, but your signal fix.
Try to help people around, even if you are very scared. Although, if only because you can be in similar trouble tomorrow.
In no case do not touch the unexploded ordnance. Despite the fact that it is quite common phenomenon - shoot blanks for residential areas (say, because the military manifested conscience on civil), the shell can be quite militant, but did not break for some reasons. If you see this - surround it and report it to the police or the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Shelling - this is the essence of modern warfare, the apogee of negative emotions and the hardest test for the human psyche. Even if you, your family and property will not be affected during the next consignment of ping-pong, your nervous system and psyche every time, without exception, are invisible from time to time wound. It is impossible to avoid them. Then they occur exacerbation of chronic diseases, sleep disorders, trauma or serious problems with the nervous and cardiovascular systems.