Posted on 09/05/2013 4:23:05 PM PDT by Kartographer
When it hits the fan America’s population centers will explode in violence, looting, and total breakdown of law and order.
It’s a theory put forth by numerous survival and relocation specialists, and one that makes complete sense if you consider what happens in a truly serious collapse-like scenario.
Survival Blog founder James Rawles calls them the golden horde:
Because of the urbanization of the U.S. population, if the entire eastern or western power grid goes down for more than a week, the cities will rapidly become unlivable. I foresee that there will be an almost unstoppable chain of events:
Power -> water -> food distribution -> law and order -> arson fires -> full scale looting
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
God bless Oklahoma!
That’s Racist! *SMIRK*
I doubt Guilford County NC will have many problems. The rural parts will hold their own.
You are so right about DC. I’m in MoCo, It was very interesting indeed to see what people did when there was no food and also no way to get gas to leave the area. Makes you think.
Looks like Mecklenburg in NC did too.
I am in the burbs of Cola and wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the city proper either. I do my best not to go.
That’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg in blue, right at the bottom of North Carolina. Personally, I think Raleigh-Durham is more likely to blow than Charlotte: they’re crazy up there.
Daughter is in college in Columbia. She’s been told to keep her gas tank at least 1/2 full at all times, and to get up and bug out - even if in class - if I ever tell her to.
Surprising that Nawlins (NOLA) isn’t on the map. That is one town I would not want to be near when the SHTF. It will be like ZombieLand.
Forsyth County here, and I’m surrounded.
I hope there's video...Schadenfreude, if no food...
“Avoid the green dots.”
I am a lonely blue dot in a sea of green. That’s why I tell people I live at “zombie ground zero.”
I posted this article (under a different title) early this AM and didn’t get nearly the reaction. I think the title was something like “More than one half of the country lives in these counties.” Anyway, in the original article the counties are listed by name for reference. I was amazed that I have lived in at least 3 of the counties (not counting Berkeley, CA and Lake County, IL).
When I lived in those places, they were small.
Fresno, CA has grown from 100,000 to 500,000 and it shows. I was just there for my mom’s 100th birthday; and it’s horrid. Those folks never heard of a through street. Everything is stop, wait, and go. It takes forever to get from one place to the next. And people are angry when they finally get there. Rats in a box.
Ft. Bend Co, TX, a rural suburb of Houston when I lived there in the ‘70s. It is now one of the most populous counties in the nation. All I can think of is that a lot of folks have move to FBC from Harris Co. to avoid Houston’s high crime rate and unreasonable traffic.
Snohomish Co, WA — very rural when I lived there in the early 1980s. I don’t know what happened to it, unless a lot of people moved there when King Co. (Seattle) prices got too hgh. I lived on top of the highest hill on 12 acres of woods that backed up to 1000 acres of state forest. I’d go weeks without seeing a neighbor unless I drove into town.
They forgot new Orleans
BTW, do you see that tiny county just north of Milwaukee County? That is where I live now.
BTW, do you see that tiny county just north of Milwaukee County? That is where I live now.
Holy crap! Where do you live? Or just give lat/long if you don’t want to say ;-)
I am about fifteen miles to the “country”. Except those 15 miles are full of the most vile urban critters you could find. That will be a fun walk.
If I didn’t work downtown I’d never cross the river.
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