>> 1) Look along any mountains/mountain ranges; unless they figured out how to weaponize acid rain<<
True.
>> the mountain springs should be safeish. <<
Unless someone poisons the aquifers like what's happening here by sheer negligence.
>> (Also anyone using rain barrels, but that might not be common in that part of the world...) <<
Actually India goes for stepwells. Imagine a rainbarrel the size of a castle tower, sunk the ground, with a staircase around the rim. It fills during the monsoon season and there's usually enough to get through the dry season ... though by the end, it's a long-ass hike down to the water level.
>> 2) Some people might have higher resistance, but that would lead into point #3. Also higher resistance is not immunity... <<
That's true in general -- nothing kills everything.
>> 3) No- one will want to be anywhere near, downstream, or downwind of any sort of population center for a year to a couple years at least, because mass deaths that cannot be cleaned up are bad for community health <<
That's why:
* All the cities that got bombed have been abandoned, with nothing closer than communes just beyond the former fringes.
* The rat population boomed, and they've gotten bigger. I'm not sure if it's a mutagenic effect from all the chemicals or just a massive food supply with little competition and rodent generations of 2-3 months. :/
>> (and that's before we get into any emotional or spiritual effects). <<
It shows in the language:
Angeleno -- a person who died (or was lost and presumed dead) in the End or shortly afterwards. It has effectively become a synonym for "angel" as in a departed soul. It came from the term "Angeleno" for a native or inhabitant of Los Angeles, a heavily bombed area with almost no survivors.
Frisco -- short for San Fransisco. As it was among the most heavily bombed areas, few of its residents survived, and it is still unsafe to go there. It has effectively become a synonym for "hell."
Hell A -- the ruins of Los Angeles, from "hell" and the former city's initials "L.A."
>> I'd wonder who went after the US in this setting. <<
It may well have been a group of nations. World wars tend to wind up with coalitions and subgroups. I get the impression that many countries were squabbling over territory and resources in the face of natural disasters and refugee torrents.
>> (Given what happened some group stealing and deploying a US made weapon seems likely.) <<
I agree, that's unlikely.
>> I'd have expected a long-time enemy to use something...a bit more embarrassing. And then pull an I will Taunt You. ("Look, you finally get your action hero zombie flick!") <<
I doubt people had that much humor left by them. The situation was pretty grim for a while before the bombs started falling.
>> I wonder if there is an easy way to mark a corpse/large grave re:identity and CoD. (Driveres liscence? A spray-painted stone slab tossed in before the dirt?) <<
The military used dogtags for that reason. Driver's license or other plastic ID is a good bet because it will degrade slowly. If you have time to make a written record, wrap the logbook in layers of plastic and drop it in.
But almost none of the angelenos were buried. It was too dangerous; everyone was running for their lives. There was nobody left alive in the city centers. Probably the only ones who got buried were those who left with or found a group of survivors, but succumbed to their injuries days or weeks later.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2021-02-25 05:06 am (UTC)True.
>> the mountain springs should be safeish. <<
Unless someone poisons the aquifers like what's happening here by sheer negligence.
>> (Also anyone using rain barrels, but that might not be common in that part of the world...) <<
Actually India goes for stepwells. Imagine a rainbarrel the size of a castle tower, sunk the ground, with a staircase around the rim. It fills during the monsoon season and there's usually enough to get through the dry season ... though by the end, it's a long-ass hike down to the water level.
>> 2) Some people might have higher resistance, but that would lead into point #3. Also higher resistance is not immunity... <<
That's true in general -- nothing kills everything.
>> 3) No- one will want to be anywhere near, downstream, or downwind of any sort of population center for a year to a couple years at least, because mass deaths that cannot be cleaned up are bad for community health <<
That's why:
* All the cities that got bombed have been abandoned, with nothing closer than communes just beyond the former fringes.
* The rat population boomed, and they've gotten bigger. I'm not sure if it's a mutagenic effect from all the chemicals or just a massive food supply with little competition and rodent generations of 2-3 months. :/
>> (and that's before we get into any emotional or spiritual effects). <<
It shows in the language:
Angeleno -- a person who died (or was lost and presumed dead) in the End or shortly afterwards. It has effectively become a synonym for "angel" as in a departed soul. It came from the term "Angeleno" for a native or inhabitant of Los Angeles, a heavily bombed area with almost no survivors.
Frisco -- short for San Fransisco. As it was among the most heavily bombed areas, few of its residents survived, and it is still unsafe to go there. It has effectively become a synonym for "hell."
Hell A -- the ruins of Los Angeles, from "hell" and the former city's initials "L.A."
>> I'd wonder who went after the US in this setting. <<
It may well have been a group of nations. World wars tend to wind up with coalitions and subgroups. I get the impression that many countries were squabbling over territory and resources in the face of natural disasters and refugee torrents.
>> (Given what happened some group stealing and deploying a US made weapon seems likely.) <<
I agree, that's unlikely.
>> I'd have expected a long-time enemy to use something...a bit more embarrassing. And then pull an I will Taunt You. ("Look, you finally get your action hero zombie flick!") <<
I doubt people had that much humor left by them. The situation was pretty grim for a while before the bombs started falling.
>> I wonder if there is an easy way to mark a corpse/large grave re:identity and CoD. (Driveres liscence? A spray-painted stone slab tossed in before the dirt?) <<
The military used dogtags for that reason. Driver's license or other plastic ID is a good bet because it will degrade slowly. If you have time to make a written record, wrap the logbook in layers of plastic and drop it in.
But almost none of the angelenos were buried. It was too dangerous; everyone was running for their lives. There was nobody left alive in the city centers. Probably the only ones who got buried were those who left with or found a group of survivors, but succumbed to their injuries days or weeks later.