Question on where people lived during the game time period

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

I moved to the Harrisburg, PA area in March '95, wound up in a farmhouse converted to apartments later that year (about a mile from Three Mile Island nuke power plant) then bought a house in Steelton (cheek-by-jowl with Harrisburg's southern border) in July 2000. Been here since.
Local assets: Three Mile Island; The Harrisburg solid-waste generation plant, Harrisburg Int'l Airport/PA Air National Guard tanker and ELINT/PSYOPS squadrons; Ames/True Temper handtool factory; Mechanicsburg Naval Parts Depot; 28th Division PA National Guard HQ, New Cumberland Army Depot, Ft Indiantown Gap PAARNG Training Center; a quiescent Bethlehem Steel plant, several State-operated fish hatcheries; field office for FBI/State Dept; PA State Police HQ and Training Academy; Hershey Foods, Hershey Park (which has large subterranean chambers for maintenance and supplies for the park); the Enola railroad yards; large numbers of trucking company depots; warehouses for numerous big-box and DIY stores; PennDOT road equipment and road-contruction materials lots; numerous hospitals, Dept of Agriculture labs, Rite Aid Pharmacy HQ and major warehouse; Harrisburg Farm Show Complex which could be converted to house refugees. And 40 miles down the road, Letterkenney Army Depot. All surrounded by thousand of acres of excellent farmland and numerous eatth-wise Amish/Mennonite farmers for whom no electricity would mean very little. Not yoo bad a place, if defense could be mounted, marauders aggressively hunted, and refugees be assigned to work that utilizes their skills effectively, and _everybody_ helps raise food or build fortifications.

You would be an excellent source for something I am thinking about writing for a rebuilt 28th Infantry Division and how things in PA would be affected by them arriving back in the Harrisburg area in early 2001

[RN7]

In this period I lived between Dublin, Ireland and the South of England in the towns of Reading, Chichester and Portsmouth. I also had some family ties with British Columbia in Canada where I was born. Didn't get to live in the States till 2001, Kansas and Missouri where I still live for part of the year.

[unkated]

Throughout this period, I lived in Medway, Mass, some 25 miles west of Boston. TDM would most likely have caught me visiting family in SW Connecticut.

Massachusetts itself is mostly denuded of military assets by the departure of the 26th Yankee Division to Korea earlier, leaving a slim state guard slowly training replacements.

Uncle Ted

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Olefin

You would be an excellent source for something I am -thinking about writing for a rebuilt 28th Infantry Division and how things in PA would be affected by them arriving back in the Harrisburg area in early 2001

Also in semi-canon is "A Rock In Troubled Waters" from Challenge, which describes the five refugee camps sheltering the suvivors and uprooted from the four nukes that got Philly located at Easton, Reading, Pottstown, Lebanon, and another that doesn't come readily to mind. I am sure the Governor of the Commonwealth would be interested in reincorporating more territory under his control or identifying possible seeds of resistance to future expansion by "showing the flag" and providing basic relief assistance. Another project would be to probe the limits of total destruction on the outskirts of Philly.
Or perhaps word has reached the Governor's ears of a hidden Doomsday Reserve Cache (FEMA records "accidentally" copied into PEMA's files by a Prepper-minded civil servant from Pennsylvania?) as well as CivGov's intentions of absconding with SR-17374-2's riches and cutting the people of Pennsylvania out of a chance of bootstrapping itself backup to self-sufficiency. And perhaps a force of the State has been hurriedly sent forth to try to gain possession of the cache and frustrate the CivGov plot. Who will get there first? Who will win the prize?

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