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Old 09-15-2018, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by swaghauler View Post
I too think that the Great Lakes and Canada East of the Chicago strikes would really suffer from an extended "nuclear winter" instead of a drought. Initially, the survivors of Cleveland, Erie, and Buffalo would face starvation as food shipments stopped (due to a lack of trucking). After the power goes out and no natural gas is flowing to those places, the next issue becomes freezing to death in the extreme cold of the nuclear winter. I think the urban centers will "depopulate" fairly quickly.
Very plausible, even probable. Local supplies of gas, etc will only last so long. Once they're exhausted....
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