America has alot of salt mines

Exactly.

And I'm not talking about dota2

I live near a salt mine as well.

So yeah, I live in a perfect place for restoring the small city and getting it back up to snuff.

It's Okie. Everyone's got a basement to act as a shelter.

True that.

The main issue would be top soil collection and disposal.

I think you're putting a bit too much emphasis on heavy fortification.

Before rebuilding.

I mean, if you cannot hold your food supplies you can just be starved out anyway.

Fortification isn't what I am talking about, I am talking about rebuilding.

Why Oklahoma is great for growing food.

XD

Well while ur going about remaking boring ass civilization, I'm gonna enjoy my short life as a techno barbarian

Who says it has to be boring?

I would have people who is good at restoring tech to rebuild technology as well.

Compared to bdsm shootouts, it's pretty boring

Rewiring, reworking, etc, etc..

Honestly. You've got most of the expertiser already.

It would also give me a chance to rebuild Stillwater better.

The necessary skills are really all blue collar

Which is everywhere.

It's going beyond having stuff where you need people who are educated and stuff.

We have farmers, we have engineers, we have constructors, we have blue collar, we have military personel...

Really all you need.

I do also plan on raiding library for teaching material...

Eh. Most libraries these days aren't that useful.

The local college for books and the local trades craft place...

Filled mostly with fluff.

What is the trade craft place called?

Or download wikipedia on an external harddrive

That is like college.

The local community college is probably more useful.

We got that too PRatel.

But even that isn't going to have alot of the stuff you'd want.

OU engineering would be more helpful.

or OSU.

But it doesn't really matter much anyway.

You'd need resources to really use most of that stuff.

Wait, how bad is this disaster we are planning for

And advanced fabrication isn't something you're going to just have laying around anywhere.

Trades School, Local Community College, International College, OSU, Nuclear Fallout Shelter, Military Base, Military Compound, Military Bunker, and a Airport.

Which is a kinda key step.

We also have Local Farms just on Outskirts.

Our Cities infrastructure isn't that complex, we also have a nuclear plant and an shut down coal plant.

Realistically, Stillwater OK would be almost completely unaffected and could probably maintain it's current standard of living if it could avoid getting overcome by refugees and find new supply lines for stuff.

That is why I love Stillwater.

Nuclear plant would likely need to get shuttered. Where would you get more uranium?

Yeah it would get shuttered and Coal Plant restarted.

That's much harder than it sounds though.

Where you gonna get the coal

Local Coal mind could be restarted too.

coal isn't too hard in the US actually.

Tends to be everywhere.

And the coal country would probably be unscathed too.

We have so much useful stuff in this tiny area.

I am happy with Stillwater.

Restarting a coal plant is kinda hard though.

Large industrial facilities are very expensive and complicated to start or shut down.

And you would probably need some kind of power supply ironically to get all the systems up.

Here is a map how the fallout would travel if it hit United States.

Stillwater would probably avoid most of the fallout.

Plus there's almost certainly rot in the computers and stuff. And you'd have a hard time replacing those.

And coal power plant needs large and consistent amount of coal transported to it

That is true, the rot in computers is something.

Those are really specialized components that are hard to find. Particularly is CA got knocked out (as it likely would).

I might have civilians start using solar panels and coal generators.

Might make sense.

Nukes are like a gigantic god using a firesword. o:

And goin FWOOSH

The fundamentals of power generation are actually pretty simple.

FWOOSH

And KERPLOWWWWW

Pop pop pop

No, no pops.

The challenge is usually in the monitoring and scale.

Wop?

I wonder if it is possible to use wheat for generators.

Yes.

I rather have food

But the genrators you would use wouldn't be very efficient or common.

Hmm... we can use a portion of surplus to make up for lack of coal if we are lacking any.

Or wood generator

Or a Wood Generator.

Salvage wood and use it.

Most power plants are really no different than taking a pot, filling it with water, boiling it over a fireplace and then using the steam to turn a propellor.

Yep

That's oversimplifying it of course, but that's really all you're doing.

I would try to get citizens to rebuild with Concrete and use lead base paint.

Super steam engine

Then use clear coating to protect from lead base paint poisoning.

Over complicating things.

Use what you have.

Keep it simple stupid

I'd probably use thatch and wheat chaff.

We will have to scrub down the buildings from radiation.

Concrete is perfect to be honest, it is cheap and easy to use.

I thought you'd waited for the radiation afterwards and scrubbed it all already?