Talk:2009 WCRB report on the southern United States (1983: Doomsday)

Coca-Cola
Since Coca-Cola is canon in the Cuba article, I figured I would include it in the report and give some additional background. The formula probably was locked up in the Atlanta HQ; to ensure that the formula is found by a Cuban soldier or scout in central/southern Georgia, my theory is someone in Atlanta gave the formula to an associate by phone almost as soon as the TV networks began to report the incoming missiles, so that the company's core product would survive even if Atlanta was destroyed. The formula was deemed legit after Cubans who remembered drinking Coke pre-DD said it tasted like Coca-Cola. Does this work or is it too out there?--BrianD 22:33, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

No, not at all. I personally love the idea of Coca-cola surviving, even if it is produced by Cuba. I am also glad that Pepsi is dead. Anyway, I think someone should write articles for some of these states the found. I especially want to see an article on the African-American states. One should be named New Africa. --Yankovic270 23:22, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

So this brings the population of the deeep south to how much? --Yankovic270 21:23, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll have to figure it up later on tonight. Off the top of my head, maybe 50,000?--BrianD 23:22, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Everglades
I'm glad you brought up the everglades. As I lived in South Florida before I would like to work on that survivor community. I am specifically interested on what the park rangers and the Seminoles who live in there would do. Mind if I start working on it?--ShutUpNavi 03:42, November 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Not at all; knock yourself out!--BrianD 05:21, November 7, 2009 (UTC)

Cape Girardeau
I would be interested in making an article on this city state. Would you mind if I go ahead and make one? --GOPZACK 19:36, November 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Not at all. The only ideas I have are that Southeast Missouri State University has been important to the development of the city-state, and that they are mindful of the nearby New Madrid fault, almost as mindful of it as the people who lived near the Minuteman silos in the midwest must have been of any possible missile launches. And, if they have electricity, they would have gotten it going very recently and on a limited basis (and therefore much of the city lives at a 19th-century standard of living).--BrianD 19:57, November 8, 2009 (UTC)

Upstate South Carolina
I was excited to see that western NC survived around Asheville. Having seen the strike and fallout maps, I had seen that much of SC had apparently survived. The fuller report of this article helps me reduce the size of my proposed article to just the upstate of SC, just south of Asheville.

The fact that survivors found their way to Anderson, SC, confirms that the Oconee Nuclear Plant, on the border of Oconee and Pickens Counties, most likely did not receive a major hit. It may have been hit by a conventional warhead, however, if we want to keep the survivors "in the dark" (so to speak). Seeing that Blue Ridge has risen, and Anderson is an isolated African-American city-state, it seems that the power plant probably was put out with a conventional warhead. Otherwise, the new "Piedmont Republic" would have a huge advantage and have established communications much sooner with Asheville. Without power, the Greenville and Spartanburg TV and radio stations (accessible in Western NC) would be useless.

So I propose that as the nukes were taking out Columbia and Charlotte, a conventional weapon was able to effectively neutralize the Oconee Nuclear Facility. Power went out in most of the upstate, though some of the northernmost citizens still received some power from coal-fired plants in what would become Blue Ridge. Within months, though, that energy was redirected to the efforts in Asheville, causing some of those in SC much grief. Meanwhile, the officials in the upstate counties, working out of Greenville, begin to build a provisional SC government after survivors fleeing into the area from the southeast confirm that Columbia was targeted.

I will begin research this afternoon on what the upstate counties looked like in 1983. I lived here then, but my personal memories of the time are not that good. --SouthWriter 19:14, January 4, 2010 (UTC)