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Lucinda Welenc <
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wrote in news:3E0CC298.1639D3A5 @cablespeed.com: For at least 20 years, I've been haunted by the book _Earth Abides._ In it, a massive epidemic, a sort of super-flu, kills most of the population of the earth. Maybe a couple of hundred people survive in the US. There are other books with the same theme, but that's the one that I re-read from time to time. When I travel a crowded highway, I picture it empty of cars. In a shopping mall, I mentally erase all of the other people. Stories of bioterrorism make it worse. I see dozens of opportunities to infect a large number of people with an unstoppable gengineered virus. More recently, I'm seeing the germ of a story here. It's back in the queue, not banging on the door and demanding to be written, but it's definitely there. First person, diary format. (Which I've never done before!) For a whole lot of discussion on this
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in the city, but they are often just as far apart as they are in the surburban town or city. Not to mention the fact that out here in the sprawl, there are housing developments with 500 - 600 houses, filled to the brim with a wide range of goods for the taking (in the post cataclysmic world).
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Dogs. Whatever dogs can escape from fenced yards or that roam loose now will eventually form into hunting packs. Give them a couple of dog generations (say 5 years?), and the ones that live to reproduce are going to revert to wolf behavior. Feral, but not truly lupine, I expect. They've evolved a long way from the wolf; I recently even saw a mention that there's evidence that domestication has given them an innate sensitivity to human body language. [...] Brian
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Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spittle in awe as <
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declared: One of the 'better' things to say about sprawl, is that in the event of a cataclsym, they will have just as much sources of supply as a city, with less risk. And if you stay in the same familiar area, you're much more likely to know where things are. Frex, I know where the warehouses are for the big grocery chains. They're not within walking distance, but if I was stocking up on whatever, I'd want a box truck anyway. One of the small moving vans, maybe. From workshops, to stores, the surburban communities are the best and safest bet. If, and only if, you can keep a vehicle running. Why does this need to be a gasoline powered vehicle? Locally I wouldn't need it to make a run to the nearest supermarket; it's only about a kilometer
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before!) For a whole lot of discussion on this
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OK, here's another question. You figure that at most, you will have 2 weeks of electricity. What information will you look up on the Internet, while you still have it? Locations of libraries and bookshops.
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