Actually saw quite a few people running around barefoot...didn't make sense to me with all the glass windows that had been blown out. But yeah, I could see shoes as a necessity once your only pair was wet, muddy, and cruded up, even ripped up by broken glass.
"To: jeffers
Actually saw quite a few people running around barefoot...didn't make sense to me with all the glass windows that had been blown out. But yeah, I could see shoes as a necessity once your only pair was wet,
muddy, and cruded up, even ripped up by broken glass."
Exactly right.
The mud will also take the shoes right off your feet.
I lost one way up traversing a swamp after an unsuccessful climb on the Maine Canada border once and didn't even realize it was gone for half a mile or more.
Even when you step on somethig sharp, your feet are already wet and covered in mud and used to the abuse. I had to actually check a couple times to be sure it was really gone.
From appearance, both feet looked identical even though one had a shoe and the other didn't.