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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
In the event of a nuclear attack, Rappahannock has three locations suitable for fallout protection, according to Colonel Dieter Knuepfer, coordinator of Emergency Services here. The buildings designated in the county’s emergency plan are the basements of the bank, Reynolds Memorial Church, and the Rappahannock County High School. Updating the 1980 survey would also add the basement of the clerk’s office in Washington.
These sites would be joined by 27 other public or semi-public buildings that could be upgraded quickly by sandbagging. Altogether, they would offer protection to 4,600 county residents.
The plan, detailed in a lengthy volume, calls for immediate mobilization of highway crews and local contractors with earthmoving equipment to turn many local facilities to fallout shelters. Joining Knuepfer in the event of such a disaster would be the heads of all the local agencies, each of whom is charged with carrying out their portion of the plan.
Rappahannock is not considered as a target, except by error, of a nuclear bomb. Prevailing northwest winds would delay or prevent the radiation from an attack on the Capitol from being a significant danger here, Knuepfer said: an unlucky southeast wind could bring it right to the county’s doorstep.
Knuepfer stressed that there are no plans in the county to try to provide fallout protection for refugees from affected areas. There is a plan to accommodate up to 4,700 Arlington residents if
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