There would be a lot of houses with heating oil tanks just waiting to be siphoned.
Hawt The UF Apocalypse Thread
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There would be a lot of houses with heating oil tanks just waiting to be siphoned.
Except they're all spread out and comms will go down quickly. Assuming the culling is completely random, Austin will have 96k people.
And traffic will still be bad for weeks.
I have a Swiss Army knife and I'm not afraid to use it. Y'all need my mad skillz.
Come to think of it there is still countless pieces of horse-drawn farm equipment sitting all over the Midwest and some I've seen down here too.
Some of it abandoned and rusting away, some in sheds not rusting away, some as yard art, some restored to like new as people collect it and do that as a hobby, and some maybe even still in use.
Our hay rake was one. Still had the seat on it where you'd sit and hold the reins, just somebody over the years took the horse hitch off and put a tractor hitch on it that's all. Wheel driven with simple gears and levers. No need for a combustion engine or hydraulics or any of that.
Bunch of people had other stuff like that and a good portion of it is still around.
At 10% population we could still feed ourselves fine until technology came back.
Some of it abandoned and rusting away, some in sheds not rusting away, some as yard art, some restored to like new as people collect it and do that as a hobby, and some maybe even still in use.
Our hay rake was one. Still had the seat on it where you'd sit and hold the reins, just somebody over the years took the horse hitch off and put a tractor hitch on it that's all. Wheel driven with simple gears and levers. No need for a combustion engine or hydraulics or any of that.
Bunch of people had other stuff like that and a good portion of it is still around.
At 10% population we could still feed ourselves fine until technology came back.
You'd still need some kinda grease. All the spinning things have to be greased a lot. No such thing as a sealed bearing. You pump in the new grease and it pushes out the old grease and the dirt along with it.
All that stuff can be pulled by however many people it takes to make 1 or 2 horsepower.
48k will have an IQ of less than 100. You sure you thats enough for comms, electricity, water, sewage, trash collection, car repair, and literally 10,000 other specialized things in a giant metro area? I say no way!
That's not even considering the lower 48k stocked with weapons (cause its Texas) wanting to be the biggest ape in town.
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If you think about it, only 10% of the world's pop is left non-zombified. You're going to get a significant portion of that 10% that is going to not be able to handle everyone and everything they know being gone. Gonna be a lot of suicides after. You would 100% end up with single digit percentages of survivors
A good bit would die off in the weeks and months after the initial event for all sorts of various reasons. Out of meds and such.
And just hopelessness in general. Like you said, suicide.
Yes, to take care of something made for 300M people. Our power grid is all interconnected and fragile as fuck. If power generation stops in the Northeast/Northwest/Texas/etc, good luck getting any of the country running again.
And great point about medicine @Strings. Half this country is a fat fucking diabetic, so plan to cull another 50% in the weeks/months after.
Mr. Argumentor
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I think suicide would take a bit to stabilize, if it ever did. You'd have the initial wave like you mentioned, but I think you'd still be losing people a year or two after the first wave was over.
Yes, great point about medicine.
As far as the power grid I'm working off the assumption that in at least the early part of this apocalypse and probably longer there simply won't be one. That's how we lose the 90%.
Some of us (ahem) are prepared to survive for a fairly respectable length of time without one.
It's an awful lot of work but you won't die.
You know me so well.
Go to someplace people don't have life easy like us. You won't find much chronic fatigue syndrome, myriad forms of mental illness, personal therapists, fitness instructors, life coaches, and countless other things.
People ain't got time for that shit. They're busy trying to feed themselves and survive.