Talk:South Florida (1983: Doomsday)

First, it appears that a better equivalent would indeed, as I summized, be "Southwest Florida" (that wiki article includes all but the tip of the state, plus a county or two above your chosen counties).

And now, my population estimation. Using the population increases for Florida from 1980 to 2000, and interpolating for counties either from the 2000 census or the 2007 estimates given, I get a populaton of about 495,000 in 1983. And then come the refugees from Miami-Dade (98,000), Broward (622,500), and Palm Beach (135,500). The survivors from Miami-Dade county are less because the population was so clumped around Miami. As you can see, Southeast Florida would have a massive refugee problem. The population east of the Everglades would triple to 1,351,000! Assuming just for simplicity that this population is halved in the seven years between DD and 1990 to 675,500, and increases by 1% a year, the population would be 810,600 in 2010.

Meanwhile, the "Okee Raiders" would have most likely salvaged the abandoned cities of southwest Florida. These bandits could become a real threat to the Bahamas and the whole Caribbean area.SouthWriter 17:58, March 17, 2010 (UTC)