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Land of Flatwater: Protect and Survive Middle America
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Kay Orr. Resoruces Executive, NCEG
TO: Governor Kerrey
FR: Kay Orr, Treasurer/Resource Executive. Nebraska Continuous Emergency Government.
RE: Resource and Economic Priorities, Post-Attack
Governor,
Despite the immense damage to key areas of our state, Nebraska still has a great deal of infrastructural assets that have survived and are usable means to deliver emergency supplies and future commerce.
Roads, bridges and waterways between the control points are usable in most areas of the state. Communications between the control points will need repair but the basic infrastructures are in tact, in addition to our radio communications we currently hold.
Immediate Priorities
1. Disposal of corpses.
The Omaha-Lincoln-Interstate 80 corridor is lined with corpses. We estimate maybe up to 150,000 to 200,000 are lining a expanse along both Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 6. There is also the matter of amount of casulties in the Lincoln Metro Area. As Dr. Suhr will attest, we have a serious risk of diseases that could harm more Nebraskans and greatly compromise economic recovery.
With this in mind, we have to affect a crash disposal program without delay.
We do have some options. I have been in contact via telegraph with surviving Nebraska DOT crews and representatives of surviving teams from Peter Kiewit Construction, who have set up a base of operations near Malcolm, Nebraska and Ready Mixed Concrete who have surviving and equipment and teams outside of Lincoln.
PKC personnel and Ready Mixed are working together to design solutions for a system concrete-quicklime mass graves, they say that they ca begin construction immediately. Plus we have incinarator facilties in Lincoln and Grand Island that have fuel and generators and can be put on line immediately.
2. Energy
Nothing run without fuel, that's common sense. We began a county-by-county system of fuel procurement and storage before the attacks. We have a priority system in place for allocations of fuel.
The Priority System
1. Essential Services (Medical, Nebraska Combined Forces)
2. Agriculture/Food Processing
3. Manufacturing of hard goods
4. Essential non-medical, non-military transport.
5. Government services not among priority #1
6. Civilian use.
The pre-attack rationing system will be altered reflecting this pecking order if you will.
Point #6 will have more on this, in addition to building a system of economic exchange in Nebraska.
As for making more fuel. We've already begun a program through individual counties for the production of biofuels and alcohol-based fuels. We have reports of limited production of these fuels by private citizens. Individual county and town governments have been asked to link up with these citizens and in turn report to us, so we can give them more aid to keep producing needed fuel.
3. Communications
Dr. Don Benning, Communications and Education Executive will have more on this, but Nebraska has a stronger communications infrastructure than we thought would survive. It will need work, but between our surviving radio and telephone lines and equipment, we have a situation with good potential.
Each of the Control Points have established at least one solid radio station to carry Radio Nebraska. We are working to coordinate any surviving Northwestern Bell personnel to inspect and repair telephone switchers, and reestablish lines for telephony and telegraphy.
I would suggest that if you don't know Morse Code, learn it. A Morse Code guide was put into the emergency pamphlets that NEMA sent to every Nebraska household prior to the attacks. We must mention throughout future Radio Nebraska broadcast for people to learn it if they don't know it.
4. Fabrication and Manufacturing.
The state has surviving food processing, metalworks, manufacturing facilities. We need to inventory these and get them moving. Our energy priorities have to be focus. We will have a need for building materials, agricultural implements, medical supplies, radiation protection.
The civilian controller for Columbus has been a key advisor to this effort early on. I plan to have a face-to-face meeting with him as soon as we can.
In the long-term. Reconstruction of facilities that can be useful has to be considered. One such facility is Cooper Nuclear Station, which is powered-down but according to aerial reconnaissance is intact and could be restarted when radiation levels are safe.
A lot of raw material will come from my next point.
5. Recycling.
Every scrap of usable material has to be used again. Every product in one way or another has to be used or repurposed. Our major initiative, which we hope to start by April 1st, is the reclamation of abandoned vehicles of all types, to be repaired and used OR to be stripped and used for raw materials or spare parts. Reclamation of unused fuel will also be a part of the effort.
6. Economic Exchange System
I am working with surviving economists in cooperation with our Agricultural Executive and some surviving business leaders on building some type of system of economic exchange. The early consensus centers around using the current U.S. currency as the basis, although that may change. For now, food and services in bartering arrangements are the norm from what we hearing from the Control Points.
We have also received a call from the surviving tribal councils from the Omaha Nation and the Sioux Nations of Nebraska who have lent their expertise and ideas toward an exchange system.
7. Human Capital
A prime priority for my department is procurement and use of our human capital. We've already received massive cooperation from FEMA/NEMA, the Control Points and the Combined Forces. Reconstruction and manufacturing effort must be commenced within the next 10-14 days.
For the short-term my department will use similar metrics used by the Combined Forces to identify essential personnel and expertise. Skilled fabricators, electricians, machinists, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, industrial cleaning specialists, surveyors, specialists in chemical handling, asphault/concrete will be at a premium. We'll also have a need for teachers who also have administrative expertise. On the surface this may seem like folly, but it is important that we have some people who have experience in leading people, setting priorities and managing staffs within the apparatus. The ability to manage and govern effectively for maximum results is a great a skill as setting a broken bone, laying down a railroad track, or raising a barn. We need to identify as many people who can effectively be liaisons between the plans we make here, the drafting tables at the source point, and the final products.
Teamwork. It makes GOLDENROD work.
TO: Governor Kerrey
FR: Kay Orr, Treasurer/Resource Executive. Nebraska Continuous Emergency Government.
RE: Resource and Economic Priorities, Post-Attack
Governor,
Despite the immense damage to key areas of our state, Nebraska still has a great deal of infrastructural assets that have survived and are usable means to deliver emergency supplies and future commerce.
Roads, bridges and waterways between the control points are usable in most areas of the state. Communications between the control points will need repair but the basic infrastructures are in tact, in addition to our radio communications we currently hold.
Immediate Priorities
1. Disposal of corpses.
The Omaha-Lincoln-Interstate 80 corridor is lined with corpses. We estimate maybe up to 150,000 to 200,000 are lining a expanse along both Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 6. There is also the matter of amount of casulties in the Lincoln Metro Area. As Dr. Suhr will attest, we have a serious risk of diseases that could harm more Nebraskans and greatly compromise economic recovery.
With this in mind, we have to affect a crash disposal program without delay.
We do have some options. I have been in contact via telegraph with surviving Nebraska DOT crews and representatives of surviving teams from Peter Kiewit Construction, who have set up a base of operations near Malcolm, Nebraska and Ready Mixed Concrete who have surviving and equipment and teams outside of Lincoln.
PKC personnel and Ready Mixed are working together to design solutions for a system concrete-quicklime mass graves, they say that they ca begin construction immediately. Plus we have incinarator facilties in Lincoln and Grand Island that have fuel and generators and can be put on line immediately.
2. Energy
Nothing run without fuel, that's common sense. We began a county-by-county system of fuel procurement and storage before the attacks. We have a priority system in place for allocations of fuel.
The Priority System
1. Essential Services (Medical, Nebraska Combined Forces)
2. Agriculture/Food Processing
3. Manufacturing of hard goods
4. Essential non-medical, non-military transport.
5. Government services not among priority #1
6. Civilian use.
The pre-attack rationing system will be altered reflecting this pecking order if you will.
Point #6 will have more on this, in addition to building a system of economic exchange in Nebraska.
As for making more fuel. We've already begun a program through individual counties for the production of biofuels and alcohol-based fuels. We have reports of limited production of these fuels by private citizens. Individual county and town governments have been asked to link up with these citizens and in turn report to us, so we can give them more aid to keep producing needed fuel.
3. Communications
Dr. Don Benning, Communications and Education Executive will have more on this, but Nebraska has a stronger communications infrastructure than we thought would survive. It will need work, but between our surviving radio and telephone lines and equipment, we have a situation with good potential.
Each of the Control Points have established at least one solid radio station to carry Radio Nebraska. We are working to coordinate any surviving Northwestern Bell personnel to inspect and repair telephone switchers, and reestablish lines for telephony and telegraphy.
I would suggest that if you don't know Morse Code, learn it. A Morse Code guide was put into the emergency pamphlets that NEMA sent to every Nebraska household prior to the attacks. We must mention throughout future Radio Nebraska broadcast for people to learn it if they don't know it.
4. Fabrication and Manufacturing.
The state has surviving food processing, metalworks, manufacturing facilities. We need to inventory these and get them moving. Our energy priorities have to be focus. We will have a need for building materials, agricultural implements, medical supplies, radiation protection.
The civilian controller for Columbus has been a key advisor to this effort early on. I plan to have a face-to-face meeting with him as soon as we can.
In the long-term. Reconstruction of facilities that can be useful has to be considered. One such facility is Cooper Nuclear Station, which is powered-down but according to aerial reconnaissance is intact and could be restarted when radiation levels are safe.
A lot of raw material will come from my next point.
5. Recycling.
Every scrap of usable material has to be used again. Every product in one way or another has to be used or repurposed. Our major initiative, which we hope to start by April 1st, is the reclamation of abandoned vehicles of all types, to be repaired and used OR to be stripped and used for raw materials or spare parts. Reclamation of unused fuel will also be a part of the effort.
6. Economic Exchange System
I am working with surviving economists in cooperation with our Agricultural Executive and some surviving business leaders on building some type of system of economic exchange. The early consensus centers around using the current U.S. currency as the basis, although that may change. For now, food and services in bartering arrangements are the norm from what we hearing from the Control Points.
We have also received a call from the surviving tribal councils from the Omaha Nation and the Sioux Nations of Nebraska who have lent their expertise and ideas toward an exchange system.
7. Human Capital
A prime priority for my department is procurement and use of our human capital. We've already received massive cooperation from FEMA/NEMA, the Control Points and the Combined Forces. Reconstruction and manufacturing effort must be commenced within the next 10-14 days.
For the short-term my department will use similar metrics used by the Combined Forces to identify essential personnel and expertise. Skilled fabricators, electricians, machinists, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, industrial cleaning specialists, surveyors, specialists in chemical handling, asphault/concrete will be at a premium. We'll also have a need for teachers who also have administrative expertise. On the surface this may seem like folly, but it is important that we have some people who have experience in leading people, setting priorities and managing staffs within the apparatus. The ability to manage and govern effectively for maximum results is a great a skill as setting a broken bone, laying down a railroad track, or raising a barn. We need to identify as many people who can effectively be liaisons between the plans we make here, the drafting tables at the source point, and the final products.
Teamwork. It makes GOLDENROD work.
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Will anyone come up with a spin-off with the other sides perspective?For better or worse the soviets are rarely mentioned,or maybe some smaller comunist country like Poland.I wonder how Lech Walesa felt knowing the nukes that where about to fall on his country where largely american in origin the country he looked to for support.Of course most likely he was arrested shortly before the war by the poles to avoid any agitation on his part.I doubt though they would execute him at least not right away since that might trigger the very unrest they would be trying to avoid.
Steven Newell, Agriculture Executive
TO:Governor Kerrey
FR: Steven Newell, Executive Agriculture Secretary. Nebraska Continuous Emergency Government.
RE:Keep Nebraska Growing.
Governor,
I'm a fifth-generation Nebraska farmer. My family worked this land since before we became a state, sir. I went into farm policy because agriculture is a special craft. Its been around as long as man has walked the earth. It's as much who I am as what I do.
I may come across as cynical and defeatist to some on our executive committee. I am neither, sir. I believe that if we give people the right information and the right tools, we can work through this crisis. However, I will not bullshit the Nebraska farmer. He and she need to know the real facts. And the real facts are thanks to the arrogance of powerful men who have defiled God's creation with their lust for power, we have put some of most productive men and women of the soil in the world in a very bad position.
There's a radioactive fallout blanket over the best farmland in the world right now. For us to use that farmland again, we have to rip it up. Not a great way to start planting, Governor. But that is what we have to do. I wish both President Reagan and General Secretary Ogarkov could tour what my farm outside of Doniphan probably looks like right now. I wish they could see what April and May will look like as farmers are ripping up the topsoil so a bunch of guys in Hazmat suits to can take the dead dirt away and bury it.
I want them to see medical centers that'll have scurvy and beri-beri patients in them. I want them to see little babies throwing up their mother's milk because its damn contaminated. I wish they could see this.
I wish they could see what may happen next winter, if we fail as Nebraska farmers. People freezing and dying of hunger.
Now that I've got my absolute anger at both sides off my chest. I can tell you what I want to see in our policies moving forward.
Immediate Priorities
1. Inventory
This was started as early as last December, after you met with all of us Department of Agriculture and Extension staff. We have a compiled list of all the agricultural assets for each surviving county. Seed. Herbicide. Pesticide. Implements. Spare Parts. Irrigation routes. and the big one FUEL. We know what we have, much of it in secure locations. With FEMA/NEMA support now, we can begin an allocation process as soon as we can get better atmospheric numbers.
2. Transport and Distribution of food stocks
The good news. Through the control points, we've been able to store enough food to last through end of the 1984 and most control points, at least for the projections we set in January.
The bad news. Those projections for survivors were maybe 15%-20% under what its looks like we actually have. Like I said before Governor, its the hard economics, sir. The more people who die. The more resources we will have.
We might have a food crunch by the fall harvest. Getting food to people efficiently will be a key. Strictly monitoring who gets allocation and guard against waste and fraud is critical.
Dr. Suhr and I are going around the tree on this, so are Commander Griswold and I. The Combined Forces was greater allocations than I think is wise to allow, and Dr. Suhr is giving the medical argument, and I can understand. But I want us to hold to a UNIFORM 1,500 calories a day limit, and we may have to adjust that as situations dictate.
3. Project: GREENHOUSE
Governor, if you ever talk to Bob Graham again, GIVE HIM MY THANKS. The research they did down there helped us set up at least few greenhouses . We have five up and running now and they think we can have a successful fruit and vegatable crop and we can perhaps expand the project. We've gotten a firm committment from Tony Raimondo, the city controller up in Columbus to convert a portion of his factory there into another greenhouse, and says his firm could build more according to specs we've sent. We also know of a number of private citizens who have gotten this information and are setting up small-scale greenhouses. This will be a way to increase foodstocks and help Dr. Suhr her team fight deficiency diseases. We need as many healthy bodies as we can for reconstruction, defense and the coming harvest.
4. BLUE BUNNY and BLACK ANGUS
Two BLUE BUNNY facilities, at Clay Center and Wood River are up and running and from what I hear, we will have limited fresh milk allocations when we start food distribution later this month. The BLACK ANGUS facilities at Sargent and Central City say they'll have meat ready to ship in cold storage to the control points. We have a concern about security at Central City. We've had reports that a couple of workers have been smuggling food out. At least one who was caught admitted to having link with black marketeers and some of those road gangs that have popped up since the emergency period began. Such incidents are a danger to public safety and food safety. The anti-contamination protocols Dr. Suhr is putting together means double to our state's agricultural personnel. We have to be a definite high defense priority, and i don't just mean putting in CDUs at sites. I want uniformed professional law enforcement and National Guard around our food distribution. Facilities like the food center and BLUE BUNNY are BANKS nowadays. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
5. Sprint Planting
This is major long-term project for DeptAg and the Extension Services, its probably going to be biggest public works effort in the new history of our state.
By March 15, and the distribution of food, I have ordered our country extension services to get as many area farmers together as they can and put forth the training and regulations toward the planting program.
KEEP NEBRASKA GROWING: PLANTING 1984
Emphasis: Corn, Soybeans, grains for human consuption. High energy-High radiation resistance.
STAGE 1 -- Decotamination, per the information sent out from DeptAg on 6 February 1984.
STAGE 2 -- Planting and introduction of natural defenses to protect crops. We must limit the use agrochemical defenses. We have to be prepared for a day when we may not have them. Instead we are returning the nature. Thanks to the Schools of Agriculture at Nebraska-Lincoln, Hastings College and Kearney State, we've managed to bred a good supply of natural predators of crop dangerous pests such as corn borers. Natural herbicide defenses will also be in the program. Agrochemical means will only be used in certain situations, but we want to limit this use as much as possible. Agrochemicals take energy to make and energy to apply. Energy that we have to strictly ration. One key project that will help immediately is the Health-Waste Protocols. We can limit disease AND have a good fertilizer supply, which we will desperately need immediately after STAGE 1.
STAGE 3 -- Planting, growing, protecting.
STAGE 4 -- The Harvest -- And it will be a damn important harvest. According to the weather models the Winter of 1984-1985 could be bad. We're going to need a harvest, or we'd better be prepared to dig a lot of graves.
We've already dug enough graves. We Nebraska farmers will not fail our people, Governor.
TO:Governor Kerrey
FR: Steven Newell, Executive Agriculture Secretary. Nebraska Continuous Emergency Government.
RE:Keep Nebraska Growing.
Governor,
I'm a fifth-generation Nebraska farmer. My family worked this land since before we became a state, sir. I went into farm policy because agriculture is a special craft. Its been around as long as man has walked the earth. It's as much who I am as what I do.
I may come across as cynical and defeatist to some on our executive committee. I am neither, sir. I believe that if we give people the right information and the right tools, we can work through this crisis. However, I will not bullshit the Nebraska farmer. He and she need to know the real facts. And the real facts are thanks to the arrogance of powerful men who have defiled God's creation with their lust for power, we have put some of most productive men and women of the soil in the world in a very bad position.
There's a radioactive fallout blanket over the best farmland in the world right now. For us to use that farmland again, we have to rip it up. Not a great way to start planting, Governor. But that is what we have to do. I wish both President Reagan and General Secretary Ogarkov could tour what my farm outside of Doniphan probably looks like right now. I wish they could see what April and May will look like as farmers are ripping up the topsoil so a bunch of guys in Hazmat suits to can take the dead dirt away and bury it.
I want them to see medical centers that'll have scurvy and beri-beri patients in them. I want them to see little babies throwing up their mother's milk because its damn contaminated. I wish they could see this.
I wish they could see what may happen next winter, if we fail as Nebraska farmers. People freezing and dying of hunger.
Now that I've got my absolute anger at both sides off my chest. I can tell you what I want to see in our policies moving forward.
Immediate Priorities
1. Inventory
This was started as early as last December, after you met with all of us Department of Agriculture and Extension staff. We have a compiled list of all the agricultural assets for each surviving county. Seed. Herbicide. Pesticide. Implements. Spare Parts. Irrigation routes. and the big one FUEL. We know what we have, much of it in secure locations. With FEMA/NEMA support now, we can begin an allocation process as soon as we can get better atmospheric numbers.
2. Transport and Distribution of food stocks
The good news. Through the control points, we've been able to store enough food to last through end of the 1984 and most control points, at least for the projections we set in January.
The bad news. Those projections for survivors were maybe 15%-20% under what its looks like we actually have. Like I said before Governor, its the hard economics, sir. The more people who die. The more resources we will have.
We might have a food crunch by the fall harvest. Getting food to people efficiently will be a key. Strictly monitoring who gets allocation and guard against waste and fraud is critical.
Dr. Suhr and I are going around the tree on this, so are Commander Griswold and I. The Combined Forces was greater allocations than I think is wise to allow, and Dr. Suhr is giving the medical argument, and I can understand. But I want us to hold to a UNIFORM 1,500 calories a day limit, and we may have to adjust that as situations dictate.
3. Project: GREENHOUSE
Governor, if you ever talk to Bob Graham again, GIVE HIM MY THANKS. The research they did down there helped us set up at least few greenhouses . We have five up and running now and they think we can have a successful fruit and vegatable crop and we can perhaps expand the project. We've gotten a firm committment from Tony Raimondo, the city controller up in Columbus to convert a portion of his factory there into another greenhouse, and says his firm could build more according to specs we've sent. We also know of a number of private citizens who have gotten this information and are setting up small-scale greenhouses. This will be a way to increase foodstocks and help Dr. Suhr her team fight deficiency diseases. We need as many healthy bodies as we can for reconstruction, defense and the coming harvest.
4. BLUE BUNNY and BLACK ANGUS
Two BLUE BUNNY facilities, at Clay Center and Wood River are up and running and from what I hear, we will have limited fresh milk allocations when we start food distribution later this month. The BLACK ANGUS facilities at Sargent and Central City say they'll have meat ready to ship in cold storage to the control points. We have a concern about security at Central City. We've had reports that a couple of workers have been smuggling food out. At least one who was caught admitted to having link with black marketeers and some of those road gangs that have popped up since the emergency period began. Such incidents are a danger to public safety and food safety. The anti-contamination protocols Dr. Suhr is putting together means double to our state's agricultural personnel. We have to be a definite high defense priority, and i don't just mean putting in CDUs at sites. I want uniformed professional law enforcement and National Guard around our food distribution. Facilities like the food center and BLUE BUNNY are BANKS nowadays. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
5. Sprint Planting
This is major long-term project for DeptAg and the Extension Services, its probably going to be biggest public works effort in the new history of our state.
By March 15, and the distribution of food, I have ordered our country extension services to get as many area farmers together as they can and put forth the training and regulations toward the planting program.
KEEP NEBRASKA GROWING: PLANTING 1984
Emphasis: Corn, Soybeans, grains for human consuption. High energy-High radiation resistance.
STAGE 1 -- Decotamination, per the information sent out from DeptAg on 6 February 1984.
STAGE 2 -- Planting and introduction of natural defenses to protect crops. We must limit the use agrochemical defenses. We have to be prepared for a day when we may not have them. Instead we are returning the nature. Thanks to the Schools of Agriculture at Nebraska-Lincoln, Hastings College and Kearney State, we've managed to bred a good supply of natural predators of crop dangerous pests such as corn borers. Natural herbicide defenses will also be in the program. Agrochemical means will only be used in certain situations, but we want to limit this use as much as possible. Agrochemicals take energy to make and energy to apply. Energy that we have to strictly ration. One key project that will help immediately is the Health-Waste Protocols. We can limit disease AND have a good fertilizer supply, which we will desperately need immediately after STAGE 1.
STAGE 3 -- Planting, growing, protecting.
STAGE 4 -- The Harvest -- And it will be a damn important harvest. According to the weather models the Winter of 1984-1985 could be bad. We're going to need a harvest, or we'd better be prepared to dig a lot of graves.
We've already dug enough graves. We Nebraska farmers will not fail our people, Governor.
Land of Flatwater: Statehood Day Part 2
National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP) NIGHTWATCH/"Guardian" -- Refueling at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta -- 7:05 am Mountain Standard Time -- March 1, 1984.
"I'm surprised the Soviets didn't hit this place," Captain Harper said.
"So were we," the Canforce technician said. "We didn't think anybody in the States would be left. We had been tracking some of radios from down there. But an E-4 still functioning?"
"There's two of us," Captain Harper. "A second one is refueling somewhere in Eastern Nevada."
Inside a small office in the hanger the Base Commander is talking to CINC-SAC. Its first contact from outside their spheres that either has had.
"Colonel, what the situations up here," CINC-SAC asked.
"Everything in disarray I'm afraid," the Canforce Colonel said. "I do know that Prime Minister Trudeau got out of Ottawa before they hit it. They said he was moved out to a secure location in Northern Alberta, so the rumors say. As far as bases, the Russians hit the bases in the East. But didn't tangle with us out here so much. I've picked up some coded transmissions. Our forces and theirs have been in some engagements in the last few days, but they've died down. "
"Engagements?"
"Yes," the Colonel continued. "There's been rumors among the surviving Canadian forces that Russian planes have been landing at abandoned Canadian bases. Stealing fuel, parts whatever."
"There's been a lot of coded transmissions. Downed bomber crews in your western sector."
The Colonel looked at CINC-SAC. "We've also monitored your FEMA transmissions. Is your President still in charge."
The CINC look worried. "I don't know, he barely got out of Washington. Right now there's two, maybe governments claming to be a federal government. There is a number of State Governments still around."
"Yes," the Colonel said. "A group of our Canadian forces have made contact with representative of a government in Minnesota, were they were training in concert with your National Guard there."
The CINC perked up, "Minnesota?"
"The Minnesotans have made contact with the provisional government in Manitoba and here in Alberta. We're both trying to find where other surviving governments are. Exchange information..Help each other."
"Colonel, I may have something to add. My exec officer, Captain Harper, has been in communication with a surviving Government where we were based in Nebraska."
The CINC opened the door to the office and yelled into the hanger. "CAPTAIN HARPER! DO YOU STILL HAVE BOB KERREY'S PHONE NUMBER?"
to be continued.
Protect and Survive has come to Canada! Protect and Survive: Golden Horseshoe
National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP) NIGHTWATCH/"Guardian" -- Refueling at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta -- 7:05 am Mountain Standard Time -- March 1, 1984.
"I'm surprised the Soviets didn't hit this place," Captain Harper said.
"So were we," the Canforce technician said. "We didn't think anybody in the States would be left. We had been tracking some of radios from down there. But an E-4 still functioning?"
"There's two of us," Captain Harper. "A second one is refueling somewhere in Eastern Nevada."
Inside a small office in the hanger the Base Commander is talking to CINC-SAC. Its first contact from outside their spheres that either has had.
"Colonel, what the situations up here," CINC-SAC asked.
"Everything in disarray I'm afraid," the Canforce Colonel said. "I do know that Prime Minister Trudeau got out of Ottawa before they hit it. They said he was moved out to a secure location in Northern Alberta, so the rumors say. As far as bases, the Russians hit the bases in the East. But didn't tangle with us out here so much. I've picked up some coded transmissions. Our forces and theirs have been in some engagements in the last few days, but they've died down. "
"Engagements?"
"Yes," the Colonel continued. "There's been rumors among the surviving Canadian forces that Russian planes have been landing at abandoned Canadian bases. Stealing fuel, parts whatever."
"There's been a lot of coded transmissions. Downed bomber crews in your western sector."
The Colonel looked at CINC-SAC. "We've also monitored your FEMA transmissions. Is your President still in charge."
The CINC look worried. "I don't know, he barely got out of Washington. Right now there's two, maybe governments claming to be a federal government. There is a number of State Governments still around."
"Yes," the Colonel said. "A group of our Canadian forces have made contact with representative of a government in Minnesota, were they were training in concert with your National Guard there."
The CINC perked up, "Minnesota?"
"The Minnesotans have made contact with the provisional government in Manitoba and here in Alberta. We're both trying to find where other surviving governments are. Exchange information..Help each other."
"Colonel, I may have something to add. My exec officer, Captain Harper, has been in communication with a surviving Government where we were based in Nebraska."
The CINC opened the door to the office and yelled into the hanger. "CAPTAIN HARPER! DO YOU STILL HAVE BOB KERREY'S PHONE NUMBER?"
to be continued.
Protect and Survive has come to Canada! Protect and Survive: Golden Horseshoe
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Great last few updates, Chip! I'm really enjoying how you've broken down the high-level discussions on long-term survival. I think you have managed to capture a taste of the chaotic and unpredictable atmosphere in the wake of an all-out nuclear exchange. I would assume that those farmers are going to be scraping contaminated topsoil off their land for a few years to come.
I was hoping that some time in the next few updates, you could bring the kid, Chip, and his girlfriend back into the picture. They gave the story a great anchor, something to bring the reader back to the individual level and connect with the day-to-day experiences. I think now that you've shown the audience just how bad it's going to be, give us a little taste of the hopeful before throwing us to the dogs of Tyler and his compatriots! Though I don't want to tell you how to write, considering how well you've put together this story thus far.
I was hoping that some time in the next few updates, you could bring the kid, Chip, and his girlfriend back into the picture. They gave the story a great anchor, something to bring the reader back to the individual level and connect with the day-to-day experiences. I think now that you've shown the audience just how bad it's going to be, give us a little taste of the hopeful before throwing us to the dogs of Tyler and his compatriots! Though I don't want to tell you how to write, considering how well you've put together this story thus far.
Hey General, don't worry..Our cast of characters will be back in play.
They are just beginning to get out of the shelters for more than 10 minutes a day.
March and April 1984 will center around the personal story, and Chip will be in there definitely. He is a member of the Colfax County CAP Cadet Squadron and they'll have a job to do.
As for Tyler Tyles, the snake will be crawling in the grass again...But the good people of the Nebraska have a couple of mongoose who would love nothing more than cut that snake in half.
And there is the small matter of three Soviet Airmen stranded in Nebraska.
They are just beginning to get out of the shelters for more than 10 minutes a day.
March and April 1984 will center around the personal story, and Chip will be in there definitely. He is a member of the Colfax County CAP Cadet Squadron and they'll have a job to do.
As for Tyler Tyles, the snake will be crawling in the grass again...But the good people of the Nebraska have a couple of mongoose who would love nothing more than cut that snake in half.
And there is the small matter of three Soviet Airmen stranded in Nebraska.
Happy Holidays
Over the next two days expect some updates...
And for this next group...I want to give the people what they want.
We are heading into Spring '84 -- What do you want to know about?
Over the next two days expect some updates...
And for this next group...I want to give the people what they want.
We are heading into Spring '84 -- What do you want to know about?
Falkenburg
Monthly Donor
I presume I'm not alone in being a Chip Fan.
It therefore follows that I'd like to see our 'Hero' face the numbing reality of the Post Exchange World.
So far, Chip has been extremely lucky (relatively speaking).
A little more first hand observation, Chips' impressions of The Aftermath, so to speak.
There would seem to be a wealth of narrative potential in Chips' established beliefs and characteristics, especially as he runs into less informed opinions.
A certain amount of fraying of the social fabric is inevitable in The Aftermath.
How Chip experiences and copes with that, especially if it touches close to home, would be powerful stuff (based on previous evidence).
Falkenburg
It therefore follows that I'd like to see our 'Hero' face the numbing reality of the Post Exchange World.
So far, Chip has been extremely lucky (relatively speaking).
A little more first hand observation, Chips' impressions of The Aftermath, so to speak.
There would seem to be a wealth of narrative potential in Chips' established beliefs and characteristics, especially as he runs into less informed opinions.
A certain amount of fraying of the social fabric is inevitable in The Aftermath.
How Chip experiences and copes with that, especially if it touches close to home, would be powerful stuff (based on previous evidence).
Falkenburg
Next update
Given a choice (and I will read whatever you write) then more European theatre of war please. Growing up in the UK during that time makes these updates even more so vivid.
Given a choice (and I will read whatever you write) then more European theatre of war please. Growing up in the UK during that time makes these updates even more so vivid.
BTW, Chip...
Congrats on your Turtledove nomination!!!!
Waiting for more.
ivfl: It's likely they might never know who really hit them, given the general chaos that is post-nuclear war Europe. If they don't know, the crew might end up in Sweden.
OTOH, if they figure out (or even think) they took hits from America as well, kiss Ralph and his crew goodbye, IMO.
Congrats on your Turtledove nomination!!!!
Waiting for more.
ivfl: It's likely they might never know who really hit them, given the general chaos that is post-nuclear war Europe. If they don't know, the crew might end up in Sweden.
OTOH, if they figure out (or even think) they took hits from America as well, kiss Ralph and his crew goodbye, IMO.
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Land Of Flatwater: Chip Rochelle's Head
I'm overwhelmed and humbled Thanks to all those who've gone on this ride through Armageddon ]...
And the ride is just beginning.
From the personal Journal of Edward Dale Rochelle Jr.
March 1, 1984
Happy Birthday Nebraska! On this day in 1867, Nebraska became a State.
It may be Nebraska's last birthday.
The nuclear war happened back on February 21st. Omaha is wiped out. All my friends are dead. My Grandfather and Grandmother and my other grandmother and my great aunt May-May are dead.
We ran away. We left from my dad's friend's house just outside of Schuyler. All those summers driving past Schuyler to run at Junior Olympics in Columbus, and now we are living here.
Nuclear Winter didn't hit the way Carl Sagan said it would. It feels no different that any other February. Although, I haven't seen much of outside since February 20. Dad and Rick let us go upstairs to the front room for a few minutes. We can see the sun. But it is darker. It could be all the junk and debris filling the skies.
We mostly live underground. Rick did build a shelter. It has room and space and the things we need to live.
It stinks here. Even with the compost toilet. It stinks. Everybody has BO. We can't take shower as much as we'd like. Dad told us we have to get used to "Navy Showers". Navy Showers, reconstituted water. And we're turning our crap into fertilizer.
We have enough food for now. But its never enough. I'm always hungry and we're always hungry. I can tell I've lost weight. And dad and I continue to work out every morning. And the workouts are more towards fighting. I have to spar with Ira, Mark and Cricket everyday.
"Don't be a candy-ass fairie son" Dad would say a lot. Its no different than track practice. It stings to get hit. And its not like football. It's not fun. It's scary.
I don't know when the last time I slept was. I have nightmares every night. I'm scared that my mom and dad will die. Or Rick or Rhonda, , or Denny, or even Brett. I see the bombs killing my friends. Killing from grandfather. Killing my grandmother.
But those aren't the worst nightmare. The worst are remembering things we used to do. Track, videogames, rollercoasters, roller skating at the rink. Lil' Vikes Football. Ira, Cricket, Mark and I just hanging out.
I'll never get to play Pole Position again. There will never be a Super Bowl again. My computer will never work again. Planes will never fly again.
Nebraska will never get the chance to defend their national championship.
Those dreams make me sad. Because when I wake up. Its all cold, smelly and concrete.
I have nightmares every night. And I live those bad dreams every day. When you throw up, you wonder, is it bad food, or radiation sickness?
My hair is falling out. Dad says it due to stress. We're all rattled and scared. Its only been 10 days, and sometime tempers happen. My mom and that bitchy Meg woman came to blows. I don't like Rick and Rhonda's sister and her husband at all. They don't like me either. Meg told my mom, "I think your son is a little sissy."
Mom hit her, Meg hit back and it was Leonard-Duran III. I actually didn't think my mom could fight like that.
Us kids get along, though. I even get along with Lyndsey, and she didn't like me much at first. We talk though. Mostly she's upset because there was some boy back where she is from that she misses. I understand.
I miss Jill bad. I wonder if she's still alive. Is Coach Walt still alive? And I wonder even if Jill saw me, would she still like me? I'm skinny, scared and stinky.
I don't like being here. I don't like not knowing. All the radio tell us is the same "Nebraska is under a state of emergency...Here's today's rads. Here's how radiation will kill you today" It's lame. It's boring.
I wish I never knew about this stuff. Everybody looks at me. "Chip, do you think we'll ever get phones back. Chip, was it really going to be this bad. Chip, why did they attack us!"
HOW SHOULD I KNOW WHY? I DIDN'T WANT THIS! I DID NOT WANT A WAR! REAGAN AND OGARKOV ARE BOTH JERKS! They probably aren't around to see all this anyway. Governor Kerrey is probably dead, too. I'm scared to think what the rest of America is like.
i'm scared for mom and Auntie Lynn and Dad. Really scared for Dad. His brother could be shot down over Russia for all we know.
And there's Tony. If he's lucky, he felt no pain when he died.
Sometimes, I wish we never left Omaha. We'd be dead now. Maybe we would be better off dead.
But would I want to be dead? No. Because, I'm afraid...I'm afraid to leave mom and dad and my cousins.
And I want to see Jill. I love Jill. Please God, give me another chance to tell her that.
Journal, I'm writing this around 630am, because I woke up from a bad dream...Well, it was good dream and made me smile...But waking up made me sad.
I dreamt that Jill and I were married.
to be continued
I'm overwhelmed and humbled
Thanks to all those who've gone on this ride through Armageddon ]...And the ride is just beginning.
From the personal Journal of Edward Dale Rochelle Jr.
March 1, 1984
Happy Birthday Nebraska! On this day in 1867, Nebraska became a State.
It may be Nebraska's last birthday.
The nuclear war happened back on February 21st. Omaha is wiped out. All my friends are dead. My Grandfather and Grandmother and my other grandmother and my great aunt May-May are dead.
We ran away. We left from my dad's friend's house just outside of Schuyler. All those summers driving past Schuyler to run at Junior Olympics in Columbus, and now we are living here.
Nuclear Winter didn't hit the way Carl Sagan said it would. It feels no different that any other February. Although, I haven't seen much of outside since February 20. Dad and Rick let us go upstairs to the front room for a few minutes. We can see the sun. But it is darker. It could be all the junk and debris filling the skies.
We mostly live underground. Rick did build a shelter. It has room and space and the things we need to live.
It stinks here. Even with the compost toilet. It stinks. Everybody has BO. We can't take shower as much as we'd like. Dad told us we have to get used to "Navy Showers". Navy Showers, reconstituted water. And we're turning our crap into fertilizer.
We have enough food for now. But its never enough. I'm always hungry and we're always hungry. I can tell I've lost weight. And dad and I continue to work out every morning. And the workouts are more towards fighting. I have to spar with Ira, Mark and Cricket everyday.
"Don't be a candy-ass fairie son" Dad would say a lot. Its no different than track practice. It stings to get hit. And its not like football. It's not fun. It's scary.
I don't know when the last time I slept was. I have nightmares every night. I'm scared that my mom and dad will die. Or Rick or Rhonda, , or Denny, or even Brett. I see the bombs killing my friends. Killing from grandfather. Killing my grandmother.
But those aren't the worst nightmare. The worst are remembering things we used to do. Track, videogames, rollercoasters, roller skating at the rink. Lil' Vikes Football. Ira, Cricket, Mark and I just hanging out.
I'll never get to play Pole Position again. There will never be a Super Bowl again. My computer will never work again. Planes will never fly again.
Nebraska will never get the chance to defend their national championship.
Those dreams make me sad. Because when I wake up. Its all cold, smelly and concrete.
I have nightmares every night. And I live those bad dreams every day. When you throw up, you wonder, is it bad food, or radiation sickness?
My hair is falling out. Dad says it due to stress. We're all rattled and scared. Its only been 10 days, and sometime tempers happen. My mom and that bitchy Meg woman came to blows. I don't like Rick and Rhonda's sister and her husband at all. They don't like me either. Meg told my mom, "I think your son is a little sissy."
Mom hit her, Meg hit back and it was Leonard-Duran III. I actually didn't think my mom could fight like that.
Us kids get along, though. I even get along with Lyndsey, and she didn't like me much at first. We talk though. Mostly she's upset because there was some boy back where she is from that she misses. I understand.
I miss Jill bad. I wonder if she's still alive. Is Coach Walt still alive? And I wonder even if Jill saw me, would she still like me? I'm skinny, scared and stinky.
I don't like being here. I don't like not knowing. All the radio tell us is the same "Nebraska is under a state of emergency...Here's today's rads. Here's how radiation will kill you today" It's lame. It's boring.
I wish I never knew about this stuff. Everybody looks at me. "Chip, do you think we'll ever get phones back. Chip, was it really going to be this bad. Chip, why did they attack us!"
HOW SHOULD I KNOW WHY? I DIDN'T WANT THIS! I DID NOT WANT A WAR! REAGAN AND OGARKOV ARE BOTH JERKS! They probably aren't around to see all this anyway. Governor Kerrey is probably dead, too. I'm scared to think what the rest of America is like.
i'm scared for mom and Auntie Lynn and Dad. Really scared for Dad. His brother could be shot down over Russia for all we know.
And there's Tony. If he's lucky, he felt no pain when he died.
Sometimes, I wish we never left Omaha. We'd be dead now. Maybe we would be better off dead.
But would I want to be dead? No. Because, I'm afraid...I'm afraid to leave mom and dad and my cousins.
And I want to see Jill. I love Jill. Please God, give me another chance to tell her that.
Journal, I'm writing this around 630am, because I woke up from a bad dream...Well, it was good dream and made me smile...But waking up made me sad.
I dreamt that Jill and I were married.
to be continued
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Great further updates Chip!
The agriculture one is very good, though I don't think that the need to remove the topsoil is that huge to be honest. When wintr wheat is already growing in the soil, it might be better to just leave it, maybe harvest it and check if it is suitable for human consumption. If not then at least the land will be cleared of most fallout for the next crop of 1985.
You will get to play Pole Position again!
There WILL BE a Super Bowl again!
Your computer will work again and new ones will come one day!
Planes WILL FLY AGAIN in the friendly skies from Lincoln to Columbia, Cleveland and over the seas and faraway to Europe and Asia!
Nebraska wil get a chance to defend their national champiosnhip.
We vanquised predators keen to eat us raw, we vanquished countless plagues, microbes and viruses. We vanquised the seas, we vanquised the airs flying into them like birds, we went into the edge of space itself.
We are MANKIND!
The agriculture one is very good, though I don't think that the need to remove the topsoil is that huge to be honest. When wintr wheat is already growing in the soil, it might be better to just leave it, maybe harvest it and check if it is suitable for human consumption. If not then at least the land will be cleared of most fallout for the next crop of 1985.
You will get to play Pole Position again!
There WILL BE a Super Bowl again!
Your computer will work again and new ones will come one day!
Planes WILL FLY AGAIN in the friendly skies from Lincoln to Columbia, Cleveland and over the seas and faraway to Europe and Asia!
Nebraska wil get a chance to defend their national champiosnhip.
We vanquised predators keen to eat us raw, we vanquished countless plagues, microbes and viruses. We vanquised the seas, we vanquised the airs flying into them like birds, we went into the edge of space itself.
We are MANKIND!
Orville_third
Banned
It was depressing to read that...I might have had similar thoughts.
But one big problem... hadn't Governor Kerrey already addressed the State?
But one big problem... hadn't Governor Kerrey already addressed the State?
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John Farson
Banned
Problem is, you know it, I know it, others know it, but he (and millions upon millions of others in this TL) do not know and have no way of knowing it. Day to day survival will be an effort by itself for the foreseeable future.
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki it helped that the rest of the nation was intact (well, except for the heavily bombed cities, of course) and that there was an intact foreign power (the US) capable and willing to provide assistance.
Here, the whole United States is essentially Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there is no intact foreign power that is capable of providing the kind of assistance that the US would need to rebuild. For now, America is on its own.
The journal entry was written at 6:30 a.m.; the time is in his journal.
Man, do I feel bad for Chip and his family and friends here. The stress they must be under...
Keep it coming, Chip (though I dread what's coming next).
BTW, I hope you have a Merry Christmas (as much as you can when you're writing a timeline this depressing).