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What would a Post-Apocalyptic USA look like?

  • 24-11-2013 8:01am
    #1
    Watch Ryder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭


    I've been thinking about what the USA would turn into if the infrastructure collapsed and lawlessness arose amid the post-apocalypse...

    The US Border regions with Mexico are a hotbed of conflict with the drugs gangs and in the city-urban sprawls of NY, NJ, CT, Maryland and east Pennsylvania?

    Plus gangs in most major cities will be rampaging about.

    After everything died down after 3 - 6 months what would it be like in Post-Apocalyptic USA?

    I made a poll for your thoughts and here's a video of mine:

    Post Apocalyptic USA - What would it be like? 23 votes

    A soulless ruin like The Road with no hope at all!
    0% 0 votes
    Mad Max time! Everyone for himself!
    4% 1 vote
    It will become a NWO prison! Hunger Games style!
    17% 4 votes
    The USA will enter a new dark age with the light fighting to survive
    13% 3 votes
    A Balkanized land with the chance of a Republic.
    4% 1 vote
    Self-sufficient factions of the Republic holding the line!
    30% 7 votes
    A blissful liberal paradise full of rainbows and love
    21% 5 votes
    I'll be locked-down in my bunker and not leaving!
    4% 1 vote
    I'm unsure what it would be like but I am prepared for it.
    0% 0 votes
    I don't care but I can't wait! Bring it on already!
    4% 1 vote


Comments

  • #2
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Cities will probably turn into absolute hellholes. Places with a lot of desert / drought will probably end up abandoned. The huge corporate farms will probably all go titsup so this will free up a lot of land for survivors to use.

    The USA has a good bit of nice quality land, not too hot or too cold, water nearby, a good few trees around the place so has the potential to keep a decent amount of survivors going to slowly rebuild the place. Drugs will become legal and with most of the population dead there will be very little left to fight over


  • #3
    tc556guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭tc556guy


    The USA is big enough that much of it would survive to varying degrees
    You'd get some die-off due to civil unrest and those who remain alive due to various medical interventions etc

    The modern ways of life might largely slough off as they grew increasingly unsustainable, but civilization and the human spirit is hardier than we give it credit for


  • #4
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    The more pertinent question you need to be asking is : where are the Twinkies!!!


  • #5
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    The TV shows Jericho and Revolution both offers a good glimpse of post-apocalyptic USA, it ain't pretty.


  • #6
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Cities will probably turn into absolute hellholes. Places with a lot of desert / drought will probably end up abandoned. The huge corporate farms will probably all go titsup so this will free up a lot of land for survivors to use.

    The USA has a good bit of nice quality land, not too hot or too cold, water nearby, a good few trees around the place so has the potential to keep a decent amount of survivors going to slowly rebuild the place. Drugs will become legal and with most of the population dead there will be very little left to fight over

    So will pretty much everything with the lack of a police force and judiciary.


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  • #7
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    You'd wipe your arse with the $, it's devalued so much, you'd nearly do it now anyway.


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