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I was putting around on YouTube and came across an interesting episode of "Doomsday Preppers" called "Escape from New York."
As far as I am concerned, this particular episode is full of really bad advice, but has a few nuggets of useful info. The one thing that really struck me is that they said all of the bridges and tunnels out of New York were closed within 36 minutes of the attack on 9/11. Think about that for a minute.
There are some 30 million people living in the general area, and over 8 million in NYC itself. I am guessing they closed the bridges because they were afraid of additional terrorist attacks, but there might well have been other reasons too.
Obviously, that general area can't produce enough food to feed 30,000,000 people. Would the outlying communities really allow 30 million hungry people to rampage across their countryside? I think not.
In a large scale, long term SHTF scenario, I would expect nearly all of the bridges leading out of major population centers to be guarded or blown. I would expect nearly all of the bridges leading into less populated areas to be guarded or blown too. If your plan is to bug out, I would suggest you have some sort of plan for crossing rivers. If you plan on using a vehicle, I might humbly suggest you take a hard look at your plan.
36 minutes... damn, that's not a lot of time, is it?
As far as I am concerned, this particular episode is full of really bad advice, but has a few nuggets of useful info. The one thing that really struck me is that they said all of the bridges and tunnels out of New York were closed within 36 minutes of the attack on 9/11. Think about that for a minute.
There are some 30 million people living in the general area, and over 8 million in NYC itself. I am guessing they closed the bridges because they were afraid of additional terrorist attacks, but there might well have been other reasons too.
Obviously, that general area can't produce enough food to feed 30,000,000 people. Would the outlying communities really allow 30 million hungry people to rampage across their countryside? I think not.
In a large scale, long term SHTF scenario, I would expect nearly all of the bridges leading out of major population centers to be guarded or blown. I would expect nearly all of the bridges leading into less populated areas to be guarded or blown too. If your plan is to bug out, I would suggest you have some sort of plan for crossing rivers. If you plan on using a vehicle, I might humbly suggest you take a hard look at your plan.
36 minutes... damn, that's not a lot of time, is it?