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Which gets you back to the gate wont open and you can’t pump petrol. If you want drinking water you need to either buy bottled, get a filter that needs maintenance, or you drive to the local spring and fill up 20L bottles to take home. So you get a borehole or well installed if you’re sitting on top of underground reserves, but the electricity is out and the well wont pump. Water shortages on top of that? If the water supply isnt being maintained, it throws off the ecosystem within your water supply and suddenly everyone is getting really bad stomach bugs - you can’t wash your hands as often because there’s limited water.

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If you’ve got no electricity - you can’t open your gate to get out since the motor runs on a limited battery say you have a generator - petrol pumps don’t work when the powers out, neither do card machines if the Wi-Fi is down and the phone signal is bad. I grew up in a country that had water shortages and electricity blackouts, that already was a major impact on day to day life. Along with fear mongering it can be a very slippery slope. In terms of Europe gets wiped out and the rest of the world turns into a lawless wasteland? Well, if you consider how people lost their shit over toilet paper at the start of covid its not that far off to believe that it could happen. My understanding is gas and bullets would go bad.Īfter Sundown by Linda Howard is the only post-apocalyptic book I've read that addresses the fact that gas would expire. The thing I find the least realistic in these books is it's years out and they still are using bullets and gas operated machines.

Crops die, no food shows up in a grocery store. (Just think about COVID.we are still seeing the side effects of the COVID lockdowns economically speaking.) No clean water or management there and a city would get gross really fast.

When this happens on a large scale the system breaks down. If an asteroid was coming to earth and predicted to wipe out half the population (if I remember right, Europe is gone in these books, that's a big asteroid) would you keep going to your job at the water treatment plant? Or would you be prepping for disaster and trying to save yourself and your people. Electricity and clean water need people to show up to their 9-5. If severe the acidity can be damaging.Īnd typically with post-apocalyptic reads the progression is the major even causes enough upset that people aren't going to work or able to go to work. It's simply pollutants in the air mixed with rain that increases it's acidity. This is gonna make me look nutty but I love these types of books and thinking about these situations.Īcid rain is a thing that exists.

Sorry if this is a really dumb post I just had to get this out! I haven't finished the book so I don't know if that eventually gets explained more in depth but in the early part of the book this is kind of distracting me from the actual plot. Is it even meant to be realistic, is maybe the better question? BUT would they actually have lost most if not all access to clean water and electricity? Is Acid Rain actually a thing that would happen - rain that's also apparently dirty/contains soot? Damage to the ozone layers? Transforming the entire Country into a lawless land? It's explained that an asteroid hit Germany and that it wiped out half of the population (earth?) and from the fallout the US suffered an economic crisis. I'm sorry if some of these things are common sense so please bear with my questions here haha. I'm enjoying the book so far but sometimes there's remarks to certain things where I just go 'huh?' because I can't tell if she's veering into fantasy territory or if that's actually a thing and it's kind of killing my enjoyment/immersion.

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