Republic Of Southern Maine (1983: Doomsday)

== Doomsday (1983) == On the evening of Sunday, September 25th, 1983, Samuel Genovese was enjoying a evening with his family at their home in Bar Harbor, Maine. At about 7:40 pm, though, a call came from the police chief promoting Samuel to immediately turn on the radio as the emergency broadcasting system had begun, announcing an impending strike on multiple targets within the United States. By 7:45 Mayor Samuel had ordered 4 police cruisers equipped megaphones dispatched to warn people of the impending nuclear strike, while the rest of the town’s emergency vehicles were quickly rushed to garages and had their batteries disconnected.

Before all the people could make it to fallout shelters however, the airwaves went silent. Local power was suddenly cut and two Mushroom clouds could be seen rising from the west and east. Hundreds of townspeople rushed down to the of fallout shelters underneath the Town Hall and Fire Station fearing Bar Harbor was a target. In about an hour, when no explosion had shaken the earth they emerged to pitch black streets. They were told what to do by Mayor Samuel in the town hall with everyone else where they had managed to get a emergency generator on providing light and working electronical devices inside the town hall.

1A (out of Bangor) had become backed up by 8:45 pm, as cars without electronic ignitions made it out of the cities fearing that both cities were also targets like Portland. Eight hundred vehicles reached safe haven in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth that evening. Also a thousand people left to leave from their homes in Bangor for Bar Harbor and Ellsworth that night by foot this resulted in many travelers coming from Bangor that night reporting seeking massive camps of Two Hundred refugees dotted all along route 3 that were slowly progressing south.

By 4:00 AM the next day the County and City councils were convening at the Bar Harbor town hall with City and County council members being seen rushing in and out all day long. It soon became obvious that major resources were hard to get if not already gone. Both the gasoline and natural gas pipelines that went through the south of the state had been destroyed in the nuclear blast that engulfed Portland. The pump stations along the way were too far away to access and fuel storage facilities in nearby Bangor had most likely been abandoned or taken over by bandits and fuel delivery trucks abandon on the roads might still have gas in them but would most likely already be tapped by other survivors. Also ten State Troopers sent by their commander to help in relief efforts from Aroostook county reported that a large explosion had been heard in the area of Loring Air Force Base and a mushroom cloud had been reported to be seen rising over the area on the night of the strikes.

In the next two days hospitals became packed refugees from coming up from the West, North, and East. Nursing Homes and Schools were converted into hospitals and staffed by volunteer nurses and medical undergraduates from the College in Bar Harbor with a few Nurse practitioners being sent in the place of doctors to act as surgeons. Triage centers were sending the worst cases to the Hospitals well less severe were sent to the high school and nursing homes. Also at the same time MEMA or the (Maine Emergency Management Agency) was mobilized on a county level with MEMA relief workers erecting a field hospital outside Ellsworth staffing the field hospital with doctors from other hospitals that could be spared or MEMA volunteer doctors from around the county and volunteer nurses. Meanwhile the 60 members of Section 2 of the 1136th National Guard Transport Company mobilize from their armory in Calais, Maine setting up checkpoints on major roads into Ellsworth and transporting supplies and refugees to and from refugee camps set up outside Ellsworth and Bar Harbor.

By Friday local DMAT teams are called up from around the county and 200 National Guardsmen are mobilized out of Bangor bringing with them Helicopters which were used used immediately as quick evacuation or insertion and resupply platforms. Also along with this a large amount of supplies like food, water, gas, and medical supplies were transported to Field Hospitals or Refugee Camps from storage facilities in or around the Bangor area.