take it from me - Western NY would have water no matter what - between the Great Lakes, the Finger Lakes, the very good water table there already and the host of smaller lakes and swamps it wouldnt go dry
and there are a lot of veterans there - always been a lot of people who served - so it would be very well defended - plus a lot of tons have very easy ways to generate electricity between the rivers and creeks there - my own home town had a back up generator that could generate power from the very fast moving creek that run thru it that they put in place after the blizzard of 77 knocked out our power - lots of other towns did the same.
and the NYS Thruway in my area was an emergency landing area for the USAF as well - so you could see a section of of it now being a new airbase after other bases got knocked out
by the way I used to live in LA - and for people who lived there City of Angels definitely makes no sense at all. For one LA is so big that the nuke attack that takes the city out isnt big enough - even with all the hits against oil facilities there is a lot of the city that would be untouched with the nuke strike pattern from Howling Wildnerness
and no nuke on Palmdale where they had SR-71's based and the Lockheed works there?
Oh and I have seen what gun stores are like in LA - if even one out of fifty civilians went guerrilla against the Mexicans they wouldnt stand a chance - in that time frame you could still walk into a gun store in LA and get a Chinese knockoff of the AK-47 that took all of five minutes to convert to full auto let alone enough ammo to equip a battalion
its one reason the LA riots were so bad - the Marines were told that they might be facing gangs armed with light anti-tank rockets and Rockeye missiles that were known to be in the hands of some of the bigger LA gangs
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