Reality:
True dat. LOL.
Perception vs. Reality. Amen!
And that’s the main thoroughfares. Even the side roads will be impassible, if not downright dangerous because of highwaymen.
No kidding on the traffic.
Before Y2K I was in the Chicago area. People were worried there would be roving bands of people scouring the countryside for everything. I thought it amusing as I was talking to a coworker who did not realize all those fields she was driving by in Illinois and Indiana were corn and soybean fields. If you cannot recognize raw food as food you won’t be able to make use of it. In fact, most people could have a rabbit in hand and not know what to do. But I digress.
I went to see a friend’s show and went out with the theater group after word. On my way back to Indiana at 2 A.M., I ran into a traffic jam that was about 5 miles long and painfully slow. When I got up to what was causing it, I saw they were repairing expansion joints and the road had narrowed from 3 to 1 lane. People were driving around the cones and into the wide deep pits dug for refill and into wet the wet cement of those refilled. I realized then, there is no way large numbers of people are getting out of that city quickly in a panic mode.
Had to love the 80s Chevy/GMC 4WD stepsides.
Is that a Chinese traffic jam?
Bottom picture reminds me of the interstates going out of Houston when a hurricane was about to hit except that we did have median areas where people were cooking on grills because their car had run out of gas before they even got started.
Exactly. Now imagine all those people heading to the hills in vehicles loaded down with survival gear. But they're not going anywhere because traffic stopped moving hours ago.
That reminds me of the First two seasons of Walking Dead. The Interstate Highway leaving out of Atlanta Georgia where jammed tight with abandoned vehicles and “Walkers” eating people who couldn’t get away.
If I am correct your “perception” image is a still from the original Red Dawn.
Many folks could learn from that movie. Specifically the team ethos.