Well... at least we can still go to Aspen and Vail to ski.
Want to bet there's quite a few Buffs and KC-135s at Cleveland Hopkins IAP? Not to mention Youngstown and even along the Interstates?
Cleveland doesn't have ferry boats. ... The two big pleasure cruisers are the Nautica Queen and the Goodtime, ... The Queen's rated capacity is 400 people, but I doubt they would use the cruise ships to get out. The Goodtime I is around (Named after the original Goodtime).
As for radars, Cleveland Center is in Oberlin and they cover a large swath of airspace over the Great Lakes region. Cleveland TRACON covers the arrivals and departures into and out of Hopkins. You also have Burke Lakefront, Cuyahoga County, and Lost Nation airports, all of which are designated reliever airports for Hopkins.
For radio communication, WWWE 1100 AM has 50,000 watts of broadcasting power. Their transmitter in Brecksville should still be working.
Voinovich kills himself (Was that wedding artistic license or did that happen OTL?)? That leaves the mayor position to either the Law Director (I have no fucking clue who it is) or the president of City Council, which is...oh Dear Lord, George Forbes. Depending on who you talk to who was alive at the time, he's either a savior or a primadonna.
We'll be fine, and make sure you talk to Jan (JN1) about the effects of HEMP. We have the East 72nd Street Power Plant, multiple fresh water intakes into Lake Erie, four functional airports (IMHO, you save Cleveland, you save at least Cuyahoga County as well. There is a reason why we call it "Greater Cleveland" after all.), and manufacturing. If the rural parts of Lorain, Medina, and Geauga Counties are intact, we have farmland as well.
Want to bet there's quite a few Buffs and KC-135s at Cleveland Hopkins IAP? Not to mention Youngstown and even along the Interstates?
Maybe F-14s of the RAG at Oceana as well? Don't forget, we have Burke Lakefront downtown and County Airport out in Richmond Heights. Do you think a lot of BUFFs survived their runs intact and with enough fuel to reach Cleveland? Maybe we have a few F-4s from the Michigan and Indiana ANGs that were airborne at the time of the attacks.
Perhaps, I am not too familiar with Air Force emergency landing procedures, though in theory the ranges of some bombers could return to Ohio. If you have insight on USAF emergency landing procedures feel free to PM me or post, I'm a little out of my league here.
The problem though is fuel, we can have all of the surviving fighters and bombers, but without fuel they are little more than massive hulks of aluminum and precious advanced technology. Cleveland's biggest problem is that it is and island, stranded in a sea of radiation, refugees, and raiders.
This is Dark as hell, but very well written.
This is utterly captivating. Kudos.
If Toledo survives, we have the Sunoco refinery there. It's only a 2-hour drive.
Gen_Patton said:With news of Cleveland’s survival, many of the refugees stranded along highways began to reverse their momentum and the small trickle of returning motorists soon became a flood. Refugees from relatively close cities such as Toledo and Pittsburgh began arriving late in the night.
What do you think happened to famous criminals in this world?Ted Bundy,John Wayne Gacy were at the time on death row and their executions years away.Is it possible they escaped or some order like all death row/life in prison inmates will be shot.Of course the situation is complicated by the varied situations in the states.Illinois is in the direct path of fallout from the ICBM fields so surviving Illinois state prison guards would be having a far bigger problem than lets make sure Gacy doesn't escape.In some states the situation might solve itself like Missouri literally wiped off the map alongside any death row/life in prison inmates.Still any speculations on what if any famous criminals from the time period escaped or ended up summarily executed?
Cleveland doesn't have ferry boats. We're not New York. The closest examples would be the ferries in Port Clinton that go to the islands. The two big pleasure cruisers are the Nautica Queen and the Goodtime, but IDK if they were around in '84. The Goodtime I or II might have been around, but no clue. The Queen's rated capacity is 400 people, but I doubt they would use the cruise ships to get out. The Goodtime I is around (Named after the original Goodtime). It was sold and moved to the Islands, but that probably wasn't until late spring 1984. As for radars, Cleveland Center is in Oberlin and they cover a large swath of airspace over the Great Lakes region. Cleveland TRACON covers the arrivals and departures into and out of Hopkins. You also have Burke Lakefront, Cuyahoga County, and Lost Nation airports, all of which are designated reliever airports for Hopkins.
For radio communication, WWWE 1100 AM has 50,000 watts of broadcasting power. Their transmitter in Brecksville should still be working.
Voinovich kills himself (Was that wedding artistic license or did that happen OTL?)? That leaves the mayor position to either the Law Director (I have no fucking clue who it is) or the president of City Council, which is...oh Dear Lord, George Forbes. Depending on who you talk to who was alive at the time, he's either a savior or a primadonna. We'll be fine, and make sure you talk to Jan (JN1) about the effects of HEMP. We have the East 72nd Street Power Plant, multiple fresh water intakes into Lake Erie, four functional airports (IMHO, you save Cleveland, you save at least Cuyahoga County as well. There is a reason why we call it "Greater Cleveland" after all.), and manufacturing. If the rural parts of Lorain, Medina, and Geauga Counties are intact, we have farmland as well.
Re the ships: isn't Lake Erie usually frozen in late February?
(And - slight subject change - would that layer of ice protect from contamination the water underneath it?)