Your post-event town

PyroDon · #21 08/07/11, 04:49 PM

No ones a rock , only real chance for survival is to band together been that way since day one . Not likely to have a barter town people wouldnt put up with it . Brain beats brawn like it or not . guns are useless when your doubled over from a poisoned water supply. Bunkers are nothing but targets , you have to harvest that garden , you have to care for those animals. one person with a good varmint rifle if determined will wait ya out .
Instinct is that if your wounded your family will rush to help . its also the first tactic of a sniper. this is a realistic view .
Unless you have help your not going to last long . those who wish to predators will end up as prey , those who think they and their families will lone wolf it will be prime targets . Towns like mayberry will fair far better but they will not be near as tolerant as andy, a perceived threats will be dealt with quickly .

Alice In TX/MO · #22 08/07/11, 09:47 PM

I don't know what Bartertown is.

PyroDon · #23 08/07/11, 10:06 PM

barter town is from mad max beyond thunderdome movie
Bunches of bad guys over the top dirty toothless roughs and gangs

Alice In TX/MO · #24 08/08/11, 08:21 AM

Ah. Well. Never watched those.

My recommendation is One Second After, by William Forstchen.

Terri in WV · #25 08/08/11, 08:47 AM

Our whole county is like Mayberry, one of the reasons I like it so well. It's a large co with a small population and a lot of Amish. So, I don't think it would change too much.

salmonslayer · #26 08/08/11, 01:14 PM

Our little town of 109 unincorporated back in 1989 and its already very much like Mayberry. Its like stepping back in time to the 1940s here and its a very close knit isolated community that looks out for its own. Personally I think TS has already HTF and things are on a trajectory downward at a far more rapid pace than even I thought it would. We are just hunkering down on the farm and trying to stay above water.

7thswan · #27 08/08/11, 03:03 PM

My town doesn't even have a gas station. The next biggest one just lost it's Dollar store.

Grandmotherbear · #28 08/08/11, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Exhusband and I lived in DC area in 1971-79 (I had grown up there birth to 1968) Our bug out plan was to walk to either Gore, in Western part of Va mountains, or West Va, depending on which way the fallout was blowing. I was younger and more physically fit. We figured if we took off as soon as SHTF we would be a couple days ahead of the vast majority that would be sitting around stunned, waiting for the lights to come back on.

GFB plans our bugout destination as our retirment place in S Central FL. He's thinking about the avilability of water and knowledge of natural resources. I am thinking that US 27 runs straight north from Miami to Ft Lauderdale and then jogs to the west sid e of Lake Okeechobee and provides a broad flat walkway with plenty of fresh water in the marshes. It may be full of toxic farm chemicals but it can be purified and I've drunk a lot of it in my backpacking days. GFB thinks I'm paranoid for voicing the thought it might be well to be way off US27 on a shellrock road instead of a paved one..

**Shrek** · #29 08/09/11, 12:35 AM

The little town near me has been locked and loaded for the last 30 years or so even though in the same time its population has almost doubled to 1900 as of the last census.

If you see 10 adults in a group setting in that town you can bet there are at least six or seven concealed carry pieces in the crowd and it was that way 30years ago.

One of the locals told me about a situation a couple years back where the local assigned deputy sheriff had stopped a carload of suspicious out of area teens and finding a weapon on one of them asked some he knew from the little pool room hangout near the stop to stay close until other officers arrived because he knew they were all CCW licensed and packed.

ChristieAcres · #30 08/09/11, 01:05 AM

Hardly anything has changed about our little tiny town in 100 years, no joke, just an increase in population. There are no malls, big stores, or large businesses here. This is a conservative community few would consider causing trouble in, quiet folks, mostly armed. We also have a lot of tough hardworking men & women here.

Troy · #31 08/09/11, 01:16 AM

Unfortunatly I think the town closest to us would be Bartertown. Way to many people of Differant Religious and Ethnic backgrounds. I'm not judging or trying to be racial in any way , what I mean is the Pop. is approx 16,000 - 20,000 depending on time of year. With about half of the pop. being from 3rd world countries were there are no rules other than the strong pray on the weak.

Although there are alot of Local Hillbillies that would not tolorate much pushing around without a lot of pushing back. I could deffinatly see alot of bloodshed in the aftermath of SHTF.