Fallout Shelters and Zurich's Water: Swiss Resilience

[@JoshyFre2003]

'A lot of those are being used for storage these days, probably for, cheese'

[@TomScottGo]

A lot are being used for wine cellars - and originally that's what my script said - but when I was recording it, I couldn't resist the joke.

[@willvazz9611]

Tom Scott I found it funny.

[@german4474]

I had to verbally say "Cheese? Why cheese? Oh- Swiss Cheese!". Clever haha.

[@dariaaimeleschats3366]

Tom Scott the ones in houses are usually used like normal basements.

[@srtgrayfrance]

I have my musical instrument bags in my section of the apartment fallout shelter :). At the school in which I work, the primary school children change their outdoor shoes for indoor slippers in the bunker.

[@Raldazzar2]

I loved the 'because Switzerland' as a reason for clean water xD

[@franchufranchu119]

666 likes, please don't break it

[@Bardo_de_Goya]

Now there’s 888

[@isaaccool3183]

969 like. Sorry bud no like from me rn

[@operatordylan8682]

1,001 likes

[@TesiKiks_NewGame]

No because cheese 😂🧀

[@p199a]

Also their flag is a big plus.

[@rangamans1060]

I'm positive that the Swiss flag is one of the easiest to recognize in the world

[@isak4460]

ha I'm gonna *add* that one to my collection

[@SacredQuack]

dd410 lamo

[@benjaminbenavidesiglesias52]

, and england, usa. Flags too.

[@psychedelia6891]

@@benjaminbenavidesiglesias52 r/whooosh

[@addfuture]

My uncle and aunt live in Switzerland and I've been inside their bunker and it's no joke. Solid concrete and steel door about 30cm thick and an escape tunnel. Pretty cool.

[@ignacy9336]

it has to withstand a 5 megaton nuclear bomb from 500m, by law

[@fredcarson2791]

Addfuture. Every bunker needs an escape tunnel.

[@TomScottGo]

I'm doing full infrastructure-nerdery on this one. Turns out it's something a lot of the locals don't even know about...!

[@f1ggyc]

Tom Scott how did you comment 3 weeks ago?

[@JoshyFre2003]

George Brooke He's obviously had it unlisted to be able to comment and then released it by making it public manually or scheduling

[@TomScottGo]

You can tell how far in advance my videos are filmed by how old my first comment is.

[@haz1m195]

George Brooke private video or unlisted

[@haz1m195]

Tom Scott im intersted in this doomsday prep kinda stuff. Do you plan on something like this in the future?

[@chrishuab2364]

I like to imagine Tom finds some cool fact about a foreign country on Wikipedia, travels for hours to shoot 10 minutes of video at its precise location, then goes home to edit and upload it. What a life.

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

my guess is that he has a very long backlog of videos he wants to make, scripts, and all of the places he needs to go to make the scenes, and every once in a while he will travel around the world for a bit shooting a few hundred video clips.

[@Fayanora]

With the train system that Europe has, doing so wouldn't be very difficult and might not even take as long as you might think.

[@tumblej8890]

you can drive from london to switzerland in a day - he could probably make a few shooting spots along the way

[@MicroBlogganism]

Fallout shelter cheese, the least irradiated cheese on the market :P

[@stocktonjoans]

What's a little Fallout huh? Have a nice day ;)

[@stensoft]

Just that the world is ending does not mean you can't buy some high-quality cheese.

[@stonedsavage7814]

put some cola outside the door and when you wake up in the morning there will be some fresh Nuka Cola waiting for you outside your fallout shelter.

[@GTAmaniac1]

But radiation is like mold, it adds to the flavor

[@TheAdaaamski]

If that was a bit for dogs to drink out of at the bottom of the fountain, shown for a brief moment, then that is great!

[@Oliigu]

Adam. yes it is

[@1996Pinocchio]

it is :)

[@rallaa]

I noticed that too. Really cute and considerate for the animals.

[@scotchedtape]

Honestly my favorite bit in the video.

[@oOSilvershadowOo]

It actually is, yes! There are also dozens o small pet fountains to be found in Zurich just so your furry companion could fresh up on a hot summer day :D

[@KyleLi]

The swiss know something we don't.

[@WuxianTec]

Turns out they just assume the worst.

[@krisselissan6539]

nah we're just pessimists

[@Starjumper2821]

@@krisselissan6539 It's how we stay neutral with such a positive flag.

[@Lee_303]

This could be any country but instead we have deviants for politicians. They want everything for themselves.

[@MayankPrasad111]

Banking

[@ilregulator]

FYI In Switzerland all public fountains are drinking water except if there's a sign that says otherwise. If you find a public fountain anywhere in the country and there ISN'T a sign that says "no drinking water", you're free to drink as much as you like.

[@ancliuin2459]

Same in Tyrol. My German spouse still cannot wrap her head around the fact that I casually drink from a public fountain.

[@flamepillarrengoku]

I found this amazing when I went to Geneva on holiday, how every fountain n that was drinkable, I think I even tried to get some water from the falling water from the jet d’eau

[@sorayaimperial]

Interestingly enough, same in Portugal. We have signs that identify "not tested for human consumption"; it doesn't mean that it isn't drinkable and unsafe, it just means that nobody is testing it to make sure so it's sort of a "drink at your own peril sign" - I had one of those near where I lived before for decades and every day lots of people carried gallons of water from it to save on their water bill - never had a mass diarrhea case in my town. Every other water in public fountains is tested for drinking standards and, generally (especially in the north) delicious.

[@gonzocrunch8356]

As long its next to a public walkway. It can be on private property but not 100 meters away from the street.

[@alienkishorekumar]

To be born Swiss is winning lottery twice.

[@niklasbergvall9656]

oh hell yes, if i can choose my next place to live my next life it would be Switzerland or a richer conservative american family

[@spoods4628]

I'd rather win the lottery twice and stay where I am.

[@niklasbergvall9656]

Spoods The Milkman where do you live

[@spoods4628]

Nineito Sentzke Australia.

[@alienkishorekumar]

Spoods The Milkman that's why,,,australia is practically china

[@1116101]

Tom in Switzerland? You finally got to see a proper railway system compared to the UK ^^

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Go anywhere BUT the UK and the US ;)

[@Benpurple4]

Australia has awful rail.

[@kmann100500]

India also has awful rail, I'm starting to see a pattern here

[@Benpurple4]

The empire...

[@sameermohideen4913]

Benpurple4 Switzerland is the best country in the world even though its a bit expensive , I go there every year in march

[@Lttlemoi]

And then you have Belgium, where every year before winter, the media screams that we might not have enough electricity this year.

[@mathg04]

As of 2022, the same applies to switzerland ;-)

[@topilinkala1594]

@@mathg04 Yes Swizerland has come down. In 90's when I visited Bern at least twice a year if train was late I'd get my ticket money back. But in 2000 that was not true anymore because swiss trains had started to be late too often. I always wondered why.

[@heatherduke7703]

@@topilinkala1594 I don't think that's quite fair. The current noise about possibly not having enough electricity is caused by the war in Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Switzerland deteriorating as a country

[@PullerzCoD]

I'm Swiss and I didn't know we had all this. Feel safer already 😎

[@CornboneMedia]

Pullerz same xD

[@ArturoRodriguez-gb2uv]

Pullerz And all the key infrastructures (railroads, tunnels, roads, briges that connect Switzerland to other countries) are rigged with explosives in case some moron tries to invade Switzerland.

[@minergmaingx2000]

Also they have the Alps by pure dumb luck, so it's hard enough already.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Not to mention Switzerland has some of the highest per-household gun ownership rates in the world, which would make things difficult for foreign invaders. Also makes things difficult for advocates for gun control as their homicide rate remains an extremely low 0.49 per 100,000 even though their population recently surged by 27%.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Vincent Mauron It doesn't really matter what the original cause is. It's illustrative of the fact that the simple presence of guns, the thing so many concentrate on, is not the important factor in reducing violent crime. We've studied it and we know what the important factor is, but few people want to deal with it. Economic disparity is the only thing that accurately predicts the level of violent crime in a society. Where it is large, violent crime is commonplace. Where it is small, violent crime is rare. And this is the case no matter where you look in the world. The simple truth is that even if you give nuclear bombs and rocket launchers to a person who has neither the desire nor the willingness to kill another person, they won't kill another person. And if they have the desire and willingness to kill another person, even stripping them naked and filming their every movement will not prevent them from hurting others.

[@quidprobro]

Wait, so decorative fountains in Switzerland use clean drinking water? Where I live they're normally closed systems that have been chlorinated for health concerns

[@TomScottGo]

In Zurich, yes! Any that aren't are clearly labelled.

[@dariaaimeleschats3366]

JakeTheHammer in Switzerland every fountain uses drinking water unless it says otherwise!

[@DenysVitali]

JakeTheHammer Yes, and it isn't just a Zurich thing. In every place of Switzerland if there is a public fountain then (unless otherwise noted) it uses drinking water :)

[@srtgrayfrance]

I think all cities are the same. Certainly in the three areas I've lived (Vaud, Valais and St Gallen) that's the case.

[@hixeeno6730]

JakeTheHammer In Geneva too

[@S_O_O_C]

I grew up and live in switzerland, and everytime i see one of these videos i'm like "Wait, they don't have that in other countries?" It's easy to forget how good you have it...

[@Pigousaur]

Great video, but now I need a piss

[@jonasrugebregt343]

On the Swiss

[@GnomeyFoamy]

The Parakeets Pure Bliss

[@jonasrugebregt343]

With a kiss

[@MaxArceus]

Why?

[@JBRGQ88]

So glad I read this as it's exactly how I felt after watching it thanks tom

[@skonkfactory]

San Francisco has two complete systems for delivering firefighting water. There's the regular hydrant system, and there's the Auxiliary Water Supply System, which uses gravity and a series of cisterns built under the streets to supply water even in the event of an earthquake. That's what those brick circles and squares you sometimes see in the street are.

[@DrGhoztz]

The Swiss are basically the turtle build in any RTS

[@mentalizatelo]

Ya, with the Nazi Gold cheat codes.

[@TheTrueRandomness]

How did I not know this about my own city?! I was well aware of the shelter requirement, and I also knew that Zurich has an insane amount of fountains yet I didn't know some of them actually ran on a secondary water system! Thanks for educating me! I'm guessing we can look forward to more videos from Switzerland?

[@henrydabomb1]

These 'Things you might not know' episodes are everything Ive always wanted in a youtube series. Short, quick, to the point, very informative, not boring/ cool topics. Thank you Tom Scott! please keep it up!

[@RinoaL]

stuff like this makes me want to move back to switzerland someday. haha

[@Sassy_Witch]

why did you leave it?

[@marzuqahmed218]

I wouldn't mind moving there.

[@rendexrz2105]

Where did you move and why?

[@PsychLing0]

@@Sassy_Witch cause it's too good

[@kevintrang3007]

Don't question him, he's a Super-Genius!

[@tijmen131]

Just visited the exact spot Tom filmed this. There goes something of my bucket list

[@dezwartekape]

Builder: sooo why do you want to built this?? Switzerland: oh you know just in case the world ends

[@kcthewanderer]

Warning: do not watch this video if you need to pee and your roommate is surfing Reddit in the one bathroom.

[@borabozdogan1998]

İn the only bathroom *I U S E G R A M M A R L Y*

[@Pouzdraken]

Kinda why I went to the bathroom after this

[@WeldinMike27]

Kitchen sink

[@bengineer8]

I think Switzerland´s government has been playing too much Fallout

[@TheRealSkeletor]

No such thing. ;)

[@jpmasento]

How could they be playing too much Fallout if they don't have the time as they are always building cheese and chocolate banks?

[@eliasyoussef47]

they are starting project Vault-Tec

[@NeedsMoreBirds]

Presumably without all the horrible social experiments, though.

[@Infinite_Archive]

Hey, it's not a bad thing!

[@Martinit0]

The Swiss also have four languages. Just in case one falls out of grace with the population they have three others as backups in geographically distant regions.

[@JimClonk]

And not to forget: Just about every last one of these fountains has an Ingress portal on them.

[@cymond]

Does anyone still play Ingress in 2022?

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Fallout shelters = Backup Chocolate Supply.

[@AethryPixel]

Us Swiss people beeing paranoid? püh. NEVER *who said that????*

[@Tjalve70]

It's not paranoia if they're REALLY out to get you. Or in this case, it's not paranoia if the world is ACTUALLY going to end.

[@Timooooooooooooooo]

Brb, moving to Zurich.

[@YvesBaumgartner]

Timooo better prepare your wallet, it's not exactly cheap here! ^^

[@ecm9134]

Well, the salary is so high that it becomes cheap. I can safe much much more money in zurich than in my country (spain) which everyone would agree that is a cheap country.

[@Timooooooooooooooo]

I've visited both of your countries, and I agree with everything you said :D

[@twostep919]

Very difficult, and expensive.

[@derekstuart5234]

Watching this in March 2022... how prophetic.

[@TravelingStacker]

How so?

[@derekstuart5234]

@@TravelingStacker I don't understand. What do you mean 'how so?'? Unless you've been living in a cave for the past month, you'd have heard in the news about how we've come as close as damnit to lighting the fuse on WW3.

[@TheInselaffen]

Less than a month before the Swiss need those shelters.

[@tomatoesarevisible3290]

Organon why?

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

Trump takes over the white house

[@spamwarrior8469]

Trump.

[@davidvanau3182]

OP is probably referring to Donald Trump's inauguration.

[@armadillito]

Tomatoes Are Visible Trump: 'let it be an arms race' etc.

[@brunoluiz1993]

"Because Switzerland": best answer for a topic like this hehe

[@metaworld567]

“Just in case the world ends.” is a sentence I never thought I would hear in a Tom Scott video.

[@pirate1234567891]

Now I want to move to Switzerland.

[@medalf]

Only do it if you are rich or willing to work 40 hours a week just to live in a shared appartement.

[@FzudemB]

pirate1234567891 work in Switzerland, live in germany

[@roinribosom2068]

+medalf sadly it mostly is as u say but it dependes were u want to live

[@elinathan8363]

Felix B Europe is so cool like that I live in America

[@roinribosom2068]

+Riswan Ahmad P. U have somewat a point😝

[@otakuribo]

Does Switzerland grant visas for people who want to apprentice themselves to a clockmaker or cheesemaker or chocolatier?

[@multiplio2924]

Given 2016, I'm off to Switzerland folks!

[@kgb4150]

4 years too soon

[@user-vy5hc9ud6l]

2020 woud be good

[@lukes7479]

I love the little dog bowl at the bottom.

[@jakeroosenbloom]

Heck, I live in Zurich. *Even I didn't know about this!*

[@andyt2k]

I love that "Because Switzerland" is all the explanation you need for how safe the water is

[@NeatNit]

"Just in case the world ends" is a great way to end a video. You're always an optimist!

[@ainselyharriot517]

Legitamately fascinating. I would love a longer video about stuff like this. Keep up the good work Tom.

[@dmreid9620]

Is the small fountain at the bottom for dogs?

[@CraparellaSmorrebrod]

It is, yes! :-)

[@movax20h]

Misty Doggy the thing around 1:02? yes it is a mini drinking fountain for dogs and animals. not all drinking fountains do have them tho. I would say half of them in Zurich.

[@p.l.735]

When dogs in Switzerland can drink more water than kids in Africa

[@Oabize]

No cats only

[@landonleuschner6078]

Found your channel a few weeks ago, and watch daily. Love these videos!

[@TheTKSki]

Hi tom, I'm currently staying halfway up a mountain in Switzerland, over 15 minutes away from the valley, are ski resorts exempt from the nuclear bunker rule?

[@timlee9547]

witshag _ I don't think so, either the Hotel you're staying at has a shelter, or there's a bigger one nearby

[@coooooooooool1000]

funny stuff: where i live, almost every pokestop is a fountain. the average distance between most of them is around 100 meters

[@s.balazs]

Was that lower fountain for dogs? Because that's a brilliant idea, I wish there were fountains like that everywhere.

[@HunterRodrigez]

i also once heard that in case of war Switzerland can block off every single road that leads into the country which is big enough for heavy equipment like tanks to pass through simply by destroying tunnels and blowing up mountain passes

[@lucariolps277]

Hunter Rodrigez every bridge, every tunnel, every mountain pass, even entire mountain sides are prepared and built to be blown up. Either with shaped charges or artillery fire. Just to make it that mich harder. Nowadays, the explosives aren't there anymore but they could be reinstalled within days

[@MARTOUFFF06]

That's quite crazy, thanks for sharing, nice video as per usual !

[@VtubeCentral]

this video aged like fine wine

[@96hugoS]

whats the use of emergency water supply to fallout shelters? If there's a nuclear disaster and you made it to a fallout shelter, wouldn't the water be contaminated?

[@michaeltempsch5282]

If fed from underground aquifiers , It'd take some time for the fallout to get into that water,while lakes/rivers would be immediately contaminated.

[@kernelpanic2887]

It's not only for that. Also in case of earth quakes or just simply an power outage, because the secondary systrm relies on physics and not power

[@Cheesemeister42]

Finland also has Fallout Shelters in almost all buildings, and those that don't are ensured to have access to nearby shelters by design.

[@kylenetherwood8734]

Do the Swiss name their cities after lakes or the other way round?

[@dafuqster7274]

Funfact: In the film Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Sandra Bullock states that her favorite place/birth place is Lake Zurich, Illinois, a city named after a lake named after another city. Mind Blown.

[@DenysVitali]

Dafuqster How can you be so sure that Zurich hasn't copied Lake Zurich, Illinois' name?

[@dafuqster7274]

***** That's a good question, maybe the fact that Lake Zurich was founded in 1896 and Zurich was already mentioned in some Roman papers could give us a hint, but maybe this is just a conspiracy by the Illuminati to cover up a much bigger conspiracy. I don't know man this is very confusing.

[@snowcat3116]

Denys Vitali 'cause 'merica was discovered in 1592. Waaaay after Zurich fundation. Sorry but USA isn't at the center of univers !

[@AlyenaMango]

The city of Zürich has been there long before the first Europeans even knew that America existed

[@NCXBOXx]

The Basel civil defence also has dozens of water purification trucks capable of purifying several liters of water per minute from the nearby rivers(rhein, birs, etc.).

[@chris3091]

Do those drinking fountains have a small bit at the bottom of water for dogs and other animals? That's so amazing

[@ZaBiMaRuSz]

i just love your videos Tom! hope you never stop! and merry Xmax

[@julianwinzeler]

As a swiss guy, your reaction to our redundancy makes me proud :D

[@TheMarioDeluna]

I live in Zürich and did not know that. Thanks Tom!

[@ihateuserids]

Wow, imagine working for a Swiss software company - they might even test their code before deployment!

[@oOSilvershadowOo]

ihateuserids We do, really thoroughly. :P

[@ihateuserids]

haha, at least there's one then! :) I wish more would do that here in the UK. one guy told me, "We don't test, we just put it live and let customers test it!" !!!

[@tookitogo]

ihateuserids Having worked for a Swiss software company, I can assure you they do not test any more than anywhere else. Maybe even less... :(

[@oOSilvershadowOo]

Antonio Tejada It really depends on the company you work for. Working for a bank, it is demanded to test cases that shouldn't even happen, just because there "still is a 0.000001%" chance it could happen. Then again, we wouldn't want our services to fail just when someone needs them the most.

[@tookitogo]

ChrizzlyBear Finance and aerospace/military are the only industries (regardless of location) that truly rigorously test their software and follow strict change management. Everything else... loosey-goosey. :( (Think the software in medical equipment has been tested to the standards of finance or aerospace? Think again...)

[@wanderingrandomer]

Your video made me really need to pee

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Not quite accurate. Nothing can "make" you need to pee, except the consumption of excess fluids. If you felt like you needed to pee during (or after) this video, that means you already needed to pee regardless of the video, it just drew your attention to that fact.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

+Andrew Kiel What was the purpose of your comment? Because it seems, from a casual observer, that you're trying to stigmatize the sharing of useful information.

[@maozerbowzer1931]

Just came back from switz. Loved it there, so much fountains and it was amazing!!

[@MarimbaMaurice]

I was surprised to see you stand on the Lindenhof. I didn't know that we have two systems :o Would love to see you covering Switzerland more often.

[@limerence8365]

I went to Switzerland on holiday a few years back. Bloody expensive. Loved every second of it!

[@N05K177]

Oh you were in Switzerland and I didn't know :( Hope you had a nice stay tho :)

[@RealLuckless]

I think that if I was required to build a fallout shelter for my home, then I would most likely build it as a usable extension of my home... Or just say "Screw it" and build my entire home as a bunker, with a small garage/toolshed over the access way. Might even get other people together and build it as a complete underground community below a large parking garage in the middle of a bunch of scenic gardens.

[@rishi-m]

This sounds so cool, are you aware of any folks who've done this?

[@Kevynbui]

About the shelter thing. We have same thing here in Finland. Every house has it. And schools have bigger ones.

[@celinak5062]

kevyn kollom I just heard you also have taxes on sugar and salt, sounds like a nice place. Is healthy food also cheaper?

[@Kevynbui]

Don't know about the salt tax but we have "Candy" tax. Healthy food is cheaper than in sweden but way more expensive than our neighbours russians and estonians.

[@celinak5062]

kevyn kollom oh okay, thank you. There always seems to be a neighbour, who has it cheaper ;)

[@shawnpitman876]

@@celinak5062 sure, if you wanna trust russian food to not be laced with crap.

[@MrCreeper1O2]

I live in Dorchester, Ontario, and in London, a few minutes away, the mail mall, White Oaks Mall, has a nuclear bomb shelter for thousands beneath it. The mall was built during the cold war, so it makes some sense.

[@SwissBensch]

I live in Switzerland and I can confirm, we really use our shelters mostly for cheese-storage ;)

[@elthanaan]

Technician and wine ;)

[@jayrado5580]

our shelter has so much cheese in it, for a time i thought, that its completely build out of cheese

[@venomduckling7578]

What you forgot to mention is the sheer amount of said fountains exist: i live in a town with a population of a mere 2000 people, yet, there are at least a dozen fountains within vicinity of my house.

[@AskSwitzerland]

Interesting. I didn't know that.

[@jerometellenbachk]

Ask Switzerland hesch es au uf 20min gse?

[@badgalselz]

Jerome JerJi Aso ich scho :D

[@fizjak5250]

do kunnsch fast so dumm übere wie die wode amel befrogsch das weiss me doch eifach

[@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097]

Now I want to play Fallout New Zurich where everything's fine.

[@markmuller7962]

😂

[@bitsch61]

Game starts, NPC tells you everything is fine, roll credits

[@infrabread]

All major cities have those water fountains. And if you want to fill a water bottle go from the tap not the water in the basin... You don't want to know how I found that out...

[@casualjoe2]

you once witnessed someone peeing in a basin?

[@shawnpitman876]

...oh idk... common sense? oh no wait, clearly you were stupid enough to fill it from the basin at one point.

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

I like the bottom fountain, probably for dogs and other animals. Such a nice touch

[@Jay1830]

You seem to have access to a lot of places. Now you made me very intrested in their backup systems etc... can you visit the center that manage all this ? thank you :)

[@DenysVitali]

Whoa, you visited Switzerland without telling anyone? What a shame! Thanks for this great video, hope you enjoyed your stay :)

[@xWood4000]

I thought about urination the whole video through because of the sound.

[@ElizabethLazuli]

I love the pan-down to the little fountain for pets ;;

[@DrewJPS]

Tom never knows what country he's in, and that's something you may not have known.

[@doggo_s19]

A lot of underground train stations in Germany have fallout shelters built in but not a lot of people know about it, from days of the cold war, they're still maintained.

[@Voyhkah]

Honestly, given the way things are going, the Swiss seem less paranoid by the hour.

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

Joshua Evans-Lowell i think the swiss are not paranoid, but just can't think of this kind of security as special. we like redundancy if it improves quality, it's kinda normal... which is weird

[@mochynddu723]

I like the doggy fountain at the bottom of the human fountain

[@acdbrn2000]

To be fair with how often one part of Europe has attacked/annexed/gon to war with some other part of Europe (historically). It is not being paranoid.... just realistic.

[@fatsamcastle]

It's been 5 seconds. I'm going for a piss. Thanks Tom.

[@cjeam9199]

No I'd say Switzerland does have a reputation for being paranoid really.

[@ABaumstumpf]

Better than lets say -The US - where the electric grid is breaking down like every year in some large areas, where the water is flammable, acidic or just toxic depending on where you live.

[@ABaumstumpf]

AMD1 Aha - and that is because? does the US not have constant problems with the electric grid? Or are there no problems with the water there (not even talking about Flint there) ? The US infrastructure is old - far outdated and long past its lifetime, but it gets patched and patched over and over again to keep that zombie working somehow.

[@cjeam9199]

I stumbled across a video of Paris testing its air-raid siren (which apparently it does every month) and it does occur to me that the UK is perhaps not paranoid enough. There's a siren that goes off regularly in my city, I'm not sure what it's for, I don't know if we have an emergency siren. As I have no landline phone or tv I'm not sure how I'd receive emergency messages unless there's a system for delivering them to my mobile.

[@stupidburp]

There are coronal mass ejections from the sun large enough to cause mass blackouts in the world and widespread damage to electronics that have happened in the past and will continue to occur in the future. They are infrequent but will happen sooner or later. The world would take some time to recover from such an event and as we become more dependent on technology and large scale logistical systems the potential impact on human lives from such an event becomes greater.

[@themadhammer3305]

cjeam many the UK decommissioned the siren network in 1993 though around 1200 remain that are noe used in other capacities, fire warnings, and flood warnings things like that. I would hope a plan exists to press these back into service and extend the network appropriately but it is the UK government we're talking about

[@LemonChieff]

9118 Vault-Tec employees like this video. Sickening.

[@NOVAKza]

Vault-tec would be an american company, and would be many, many, many times worse than this. That's half the reason they exist, fallout loves to imply that we deserve everything that happens to us post-apocolypse.

[@3karus]

Hey Tom, i can't believe you were in Zurich and i missed it :( I would have loved to meet you ! one thing you might also find interesting: When you go to rent a flat or house here, they actually also show you the air raid shelter you will be placed in.p and youse it as a selling point :D If you ever decide to visit zurich again i'd be glad to help you out. Anyways, have a great new year !

[@MrSTJEREM]

I got some weird looks from some travellers when I took a sip from a fountain in the city. It is normal that you can drink from every fountain in Switzerland unless stated otherwise.

[@HeikkiHeer]

by the way: the wanter spring/fountain thing you were standing at has 2 outlets. You showed the second, lower one very for a very short moment. The lower one is for dogs and cats. No joke.

[@OccupyArnhem]

Switzerland: "It just works!"

[@misschief4283]

I love that they have a lower fountain presumably for pets to use, although, I bet wild animals like birds and foxes use it too!

[@OlafoWaffle]

Thanks for that warm fuzzy tom...

[@anonym3017]

Why the hell didn't you tell is that you were in Zürich. I would have given you a free tour. I mean I live there.

[@elthanaan]

Ano Nym er könnte immer noch da sein ;)

[@sebastianfry7813]

How funny is it that I'm a Brit from London living in Zürich while watching! I'm a registered Swiss citizen and a registered British citizen and I am currently staying with my grandparents for the summer holidays!

[@tim3609]

When being in Switzerland, will you also visit CERN? It must be quite impressive :)

[@MeqaAdeliuz]

Zurich resident here, great video! How do you like Zurich so far and how long are you staying?

[@DJMavis]

You've just massively ramped up house prices in Zurich with the way things are panning out!

[@rafaelribas1027]

Don't worry, they were already ridiculously expensive before this video came out...

[@DagaraLP]

xD

[@duricandrian2500]

Not only in Zurich but all over Switzerland, the tap water has mineral water quality. It's common since centuries that every town, village or community must provide public fountains with free access. Fallout shelters in every home or building are beeing testet by the gouvernment regularly for their functionality. There are public shelters in every neighborhood. People who do not have a shelter at home will be adressed to one in the neighborhood by civil care organization

[@R9000]

I remember going to Geneva I'm summer a while ago and wandering round one of the massive parks. As a pale-skinned Englishman, I was certainly glad to see these little fountains dotted about. I think they were labeled 'Eau Pottable'.

[@spider_sf]

Just a guy who lives in switzerland here: l'eau = water pottable = drinkable

[@R9000]

Samuel Fowler Ah! Thank you, I did study French for a few years, but I never knew 'pottable'. I always knew 'to drink' as 'boire', eg. 'je bois'.

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

'potable water' is also an expression in English.

[@tookitogo]

It's interesting: in the German speaking part of Switzerland, water fountains are potable water unless otherwise marked as non-potable, while in the French speaking part, fountains are non-potable unless specifically marked as potable.

[@spider_sf]

Even funnier: In the German part, most people can speak quite a lot of French, but in the French part very few can speak German. I don't even want to get started on the Italian part.