Dealing with refugees from Tucson and Phoenix is one of the biggest parts of Thunder Empire. Much of the farm labor in SAMAD comes from these sources. Tucson refugees go home, for the most part. Phoenicians really never go home. Law and order begin to break down promptly in Phoenix, although the federal government tries to provide support to keep key defense industries in Metro Phoenix open. (A good example of this is the Apache plant) Most of the refugees in camps within the future boundaries of SAMAD as of January 1998 are put to work in return for their rations and shelter.
I absolutely agree that people with the means leave. However, previous refugee crises provide something of an experience base for the American public. I’ll talk more about the Alarm (July, 1997) once I finish writing my piece on pulses. Fewer people simply stream into the countryside in late 1997 than would be the case in a cold-start nuclear exchange. Many have had the chance to think things through and make some arrangements. I’m not saying the US becomes a survivalist nation—not at all. But a significant slice of the pie thinks things through and makes some preparations for themselves.
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