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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

James, I was just messing around.  You've probably got an army of kinfolk 
around , anyway.  But, darn it, some of those sci-fi apocolyptic scenes do 
make for good reading.........bford



----- Original Message ----
From: "Clansgian AT wmconnect.com" <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:42:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Enjoy the quiet while it lasts...


> >So, when Knoxville and Nashville empty and head your way, you're going to 
> still be standing at the door of the ark?  It will be like the DMZ in Korea 
> when the Chinese came over the line.  I can see you now with a. 45 and 
> maybe 
> an AR-15 worrying about when the barrels are going to melt <G>.  ...bobford

Put down the paperback, Bob, take a deep breath and give reality a try.  
Knoxville is 145 miles from here.  Nashville more than twice that far.

Now, in a world short of fuel and food (if they had fuel and food, they'd be 
staying in Knoxville and Nashville) the alluded to marauding hordes head this 
way.  They can make maybe 12 to 15 miles a day if they were in good shape and 
used to the rigors of a 150 mile hike.  But almost no one is.  But we will 
continue with your paperback story ... what is it you are proposing that they 
are 
eating the 15 days it takes them to get here?  Or a month or more out of 
Nashville?

Fine, let the hordes come and be exhausted and from fasting and fatique.  I 
can handle the survivors, what few there would be.

It's only in paperbacks and sci-fi movies that you find people fighting over 
the last rat to eat or last pint of water, and yet they are in perfect 
physical shape and ready to fight tooth and nail for 20 hours without 
stopping.  In 
the real world by the time those people even had the impetus to leave 
Knoxville 
and Nashville, they'd be ematiated skeletons.

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