[jchav62]

Originally Posted by shrunken66stroker

I wasn't even 10 when that movie came out and I don't think I've even seen the whole thing. Maybe my Grandpa was a closet Red Dawn lover. All I know is I was 13 and ran outside my classroom to see a mushroom cloud in the sky after all of the ceiling tiles just fell on my head from a shock wave. I was feeling lucky that there wasn't $hit in my pants. My school was about 5 or 6 miles away from the epicenter.

My school was on the other side of town, but when the blast hit you could swear it was right outside. Henderson's pretty much (well it used to be) an industrial town founded on plants and factories. My Dad worked at a lime plant in the BMI complex (where all the plants were). When we got evacuated, we all ran outside, and from where my school was it looked like the whole BMI complex was up in flames. I thought my Dad was a goner. The tears were flowing! PEPCON was about a mile or two outside of the BMI complex, but the flames and smoke clouds were so huge it looked like all the plants were on fire...

Anyhow, enough Henderson history...back to the Re-hash..