[Dog Gone]

I doesn't really matter. When all the looted potable liquids have been drunk, anyone remaining in the city will have a choice of drinking the toxic floodwaters or drinking nothing at all.

How long will that be? A few days, I'd guess. With no AC, it's going to be hot and sweaty out there and it doesn't look like getting water tanker trucks in there will be an option.

It seems to me like these people have only a couple of options. Hope to flag down a chopper or walk and swim their way out of town.

Am I looking at this too pessimistically?

[John Jamieson]

No, you're not sr.

NO needs to be treated like a nuclear war zone .... get the people out now. Worry about buildings later.

[hole_n_one]

...............

Am I looking at this too pessimistically?

I fear you may have unknowingly sugar-coated it.