Your post-event town

[Farmerwilly2]

How do you think you'd rate your nearby town after in the post-event (pick an event: plauge, famine, closing of all starbuck clip joints...)era?

Woud it be more like Mayberry or Hooterville or will it be more like Bartertown or Fallujah? A place to take your family to or just an armed escort?

[Forlane]

I think the gang issues we currently have will sky rocket.

[Danaus29]

No Gomorrah? I would pick that one.

[Laura Zone 10]

Not sure.
Lot's of 'rich folks to my south' and lots of farm folks to my north.
Not a lot of folks living in my 7 mile radius.

[jwal10]

This little burg? Rednecks and guns, we look out for each other. I don't know if there will be a town if pushed, we might all scatter to the hills to the west. 40 miles to a highway, good fishing, hunting and gleaning and most of us know how to make do....James

[Bearfootfarm]

Our closest town is about like Mayberry now.
The nearest bigger town will be a disaster area.

I plan to just stay at home as much as possible

[ladycat]

Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

Our closest town is about like Mayberry now.
The nearest bigger town will be a disaster area.

I plan to just stay at home as much as possible

That's approximately true for me, too.

I'd want to avoid large congregations of population.

[Ravenlost]

We are much to close to Memphis, which is already bad.

[Darren]

On August 17th several counties in WV are participating in an exercise called Mountain Host. The exercise is based on the premise that in the event something catastrophic happens in DC the refugees will end up in WV. Personally I don't think that will happen. By that I mean refugees making it to WV.

Coordination, communications, function of county offices of emergency services, etc. will be tested.

It should be interesting. I'm wondering how many similar plans exist around the country to route and shelter people fleeing large cities.

I don't see the local area being either a Mayberry or a Bartertown. It's certainly not Mayberry now. So that's out. I'm not sure how it will work out.

[Farmerwilly2]

I spose I'm like most here, no immediate town. Give it a 20 mile drive and you can hit two more like a collection of yard sales connected by houses and small stores.

Drive an hour or more and you could hit bigger cities. Great for a bigger paycheck and the Chipotle, but beyond that a place to avoid.

[julieq]

Originally Posted by Forlane

I think the gang issues we currently have will sky rocket.

Yep, that's what I think would happen here too.

[FarmboyBill]

Dont know whather talk bout, but oil was found in SZlick in 21. The town boomed to 5000 in a year. Had 4 banks, jail, all kinds of stuff, hotels, bars ect. Had a fire in 22. It took anything that was wood. Oil went to heck around 30. Town went to heck by 40. Kept a HS till 70. Slick could wish it was a Mayberry, but never will be again. Big Okla Bank robbers usta hid out here as it was far from Tulsa and Okc, and the FBI wasnt anything yet then.

[Ken Scharabok]

I think it would all depend on water availability. Trace Creek runs through Waverly, TN so water wouldn't be a particular problem except in transportation.

Since this is a corn and soybeans area, likely will be lots in storage. Grinding it up into meal will be a problem though.

[tinknal]

The zombies from the nearest metropolis would be at least 3 days forced march through Redneck country to get here so I feel pretty good. Neighbors are cliquish and antisocial, but not dangerous. My "people" are 15 miles north of me and there are enough of us that we can form a strong, productive, and defensive community.

[Kris in MI]

We're all ready like Mayberry, without any Barneys. Beginning in January of this year, the county was going to add a charge per household (in addtion to what's all ready taken on our taxes) to continue rural police patrols. It got overwhelmingly voted down. Like 85 or 90% votes against. Most of us don't see cops too often on our roads anyway.

Yesterday at the farmers market conversations varied from "hey you got corn all ready?" to "how'd your tomatoes do with all that rain last week?" (9 inches in 48 hours plus another inch 3 days later) to "how'd you do on your fair projects?" (this is fair week) to comparing ways to feed the deer without actually baiting (feedpiles being illegal the last few years) to dispatching of various varmints (with stories of drowning coons in live traps in ponds, smashing a possum with a sledge hammer, roaming the barnyard at night with a spotlight and a .22 after hearing your chickens 'screaming'. . .)

Mayberry.

[ErinP]

I'm not sure what Bartertown is, but we're already a lot like Mayberry around here. Only a lot fewer people. lol

[jessimeredith]

In spot? Bartertown. Too many Americans dropped on too small a post (technically 3 kasernes, ie smaller posts) in the middle of a tiny German town that begged and pleaded for the post to stay open and support it's citizenry. Post-event here would be a lock down of the post, immediate. It was like that after 9-11 (we were in Germany then too). Two weeks of very little in and out traffic, necessities only.

[Bluesgal]

After "IT" going into to "town" would not be an option.... I'd be going the other way..

[hotzcatz]

Generally when we have "events" everyone goes around to check on everyone else. The last big one was the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in '06. We are kinda used to being rather isolated and we have a long tradition of "kokua" and "aloha". Oahu, though, would probably suck since that island has way too many people on it. Our island, Hawaii, would have to feed Oahu if things got really dire, but we've got loads of cows around here. We can always send them some cows.

[texican]

Imho, unless there's some geological barriers (no bridges?) protecting Mayberry... Bartertown would soon 'obtain' everything Mayberry had.

We have energy, food, timber, water... would be nice to have some grain silos around, but you can't have everything. The 'readjustment' period for all the govt.'s slaves would be rough... those folks that have free housing, free food, free everything... would find it hard to conceptualize that if they don't work, they don't eat... put up too much of a ruckus about it, and grace the overpasses coming into town.

In a post shtf or post apocalyptic world, there is no 'govt' welfare... you work (or have someone who will work for you... husband, wife, family) or you don't eat... Think about it for a while... your busting your chops to grow enough food to feed your family, and it's iffy whether you'll make it through the first year or not... and Cousin Bob with Wife, and 3 kids show up, expecting a "Holiday Inn" experience. Do you feed these leeches (risking your own families survival) or do you put em to work?