Still one of my favorite books.
If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-.../dp/B002LATV16
Still one of my favorite books.
If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-.../dp/B002LATV16
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
That story takes place about 45 minutes from here.Originally Posted by RoyGBiv
Can't remember if I read the second book, and I know I didn't read the third.
There's nothing civil about this war.
That book is the scariest book I ever read - it seems to be too true of a possible scenario.
Well hell, he killed me when he ate his dog.
But if you have to I probably would to
Last edited by Arbninftry; 07-14-2019 at 11:26 PM.
Actually - didn't he give the dead dog to his neighbor so the food value would not be lost?
You probably are right, it’s been a while since I read it.
Last edited by Arbninftry; 07-15-2019 at 08:05 PM.
Heard some bit on the radio about the blackout, sounds like it didnt go too badly overall, people were fairly good natured. Singing group giving a free concert on the street since theirs was cancelled, people making music, hanging out. Ordinary people out directing traffic at intersections, Not the bedlam its been at other times and places.
Last edited by Malamute; 07-15-2019 at 09:08 PM.
Yes it's a necro-post.
Just read this book, recommended to me by one of my partners.
Fascinating both from a subject content as well as the fact that it's set in an area well known to me.
Crazy to think that that's something that could happen and how quickly things would go south.
And to some of the other posts after this, he had to kill both of his golden retrievers. One was fed to a neighbor, the other was fed to his pregnant daughter.
During Sandy, parts of Manhattan lost power for 3 days. I was over the river in NJ, and we did 2 weeks. Same for 2003: if I recall correctly, a good chunk of NYC was out for just over a day; in my part of NJ, we had fits and starts and it took a little longer.Manhattan at sunset. No power.
When I first moved to my present location we had power outages for days at a time. The difference was I was prepared for it.
So being outside the megalopolis proper is not a guarantee, I guess is my point.
The most interesting takeaway for me, I remember thinking at the time, was how little looting/theft happened in NYC. At least for those occasions, NYers don't seem to riot as quickly as folks in some places. And there are lots of anecdotes about how people came together and helped each other out. Similar to the pandemic: everyone sees pictures of a deserted Times Square (I can show you mine), but I've never once seen in the news how much time a lot of folks put into making sure that elderly folks got groceries, and did all kinds of little things to make sure they were as comfortable as possible (including unclogging toilets, that one I'd prefer to forget).
All that is just to say that not all city slickers start immediately starving if you take away their sushi delivery for an afternoon, and it doesn't turn into Thunderdome that quickly either.
"It was the fuck aroundest of times, it was the find outest of times."- 45dotACP
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