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How Cresent City survived nuclear war
Surviving Nuclear War
by jake cosmos aller
After walking most of the morning from the campus of California Polytechnical University in Arcadia, I reach my home in Cresent City and reach my friend Sean, the new mayor.
Sean and his senior team had activated a local emergency action committee and were speculating what had happened when I arrived. They turned to me for advice, as they knew I specialized in post-nuclear war scenarios.
“Tim, is this it? A nuclear war?”
“It looks like it. I am going to share what I know and most of it is classified from my time at CIA and FEMA before I retired to become a college professor and based on my extensive reading. What happened most likely was nuclear weapons detonating in space to generate Electromagnetic pulses that wiped out anything electrical, including cars, computers, and the internet. Planes should have been dropping from the skies. Within a week, all perishable food will be gone. No new deliveries, Most of the rest of the state will soon be uninhabitable.
If we pull ourselves together and join together with folks in Arcadia, Eureka, and perhaps as far south as Uriah and Lake County, we might survive. We have to build a fort across the city, keep outsiders out and everyone must work growing food, we can live off canned food for a while, but we must become an agricultural-based community.
Fort Cresent City began that day. That is how I helped my hometown survive the end of civilization.
Me, Myself and I Flash Fiction writing prompt entry
After walking most of the morning from the campus of California Polytechnical University in Arcadia, I reach my home in Cresent City and reach my friend Sean, the new mayor.
Sean and his senior team had activated a local emergency action committee and were speculating what had happened when I arrived. They turned to me for advice, as they knew I specialized in post-nuclear war scenarios.
“Tim, is this it? A nuclear war?”
“It looks like it. I am going to share what I know and most of it is classified from my time at CIA and FEMA before I retired to become a college professor and based on my extensive reading. What happened most likely was nuclear weapons detonating in space to generate Electromagnetic pulses that wiped out anything electrical, including cars, computers, and the internet. Planes should have been dropping from the skies. Within a week, all perishable food will be gone. No new deliveries, Most of the rest of the state will soon be uninhabitable.
If we pull ourselves together and join together with folks in Arcadia, Eureka, and perhaps as far south as Uriah and Lake County, we might survive. We have to build a fort across the city, keep outsiders out and everyone must work growing food, we can live off canned food for a while, but we must become an agricultural-based community.
Fort Cresent City began that day. That is how I helped my hometown survive the end of civilization.
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FEMA once asked thriller writers to look at what communities would most likely survive a civilization-ending event. They said the most likely communities to survive would be small towns located in rural areas as long as the local communities could build medieval forts and focus on becoming self-sufficient in agriculture. the North Coast of California, Southern, and Central Oregon would be good candidates.
Much of the rest of the country would not survive â too cold in the winter, or too hot in the summer.
Most Urban areas would become uninhabitable once power fails everywhere.
in a full-scale nuclear war, most people would not survive except in isolated little towns here and there.
The Federal government would not survive.
Nuclear winter could trigger another ice age ending global warming after widespread fires burn out.
Electromagnetic pulses could wipe out all electronic devices including the internet, communications, and all vehicles built after 1960. Planes would crash everywhere as well.
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