Editing The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/New York State (section)

== New York City ==

Manhattan was ground zero again, this time for a major nuclear attack that devastated the entire island, a lot of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, along with Staten Island and much of Eastern Central New Jersey right across the Hudson River. Long Island wasn't as affected by the blast itself, but fallout moving across the island made many want to leave. However, as all of the overland routes off the island were through the irradiated ruins formerly known as Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, and New Jersey. Most of the residents that wished to get out of the area tried to get to the north coast of the island, attempting to get on one of the ferries across Long Island Sound to Connecticut and points north. MacArthur and Republic airports, the biggest airports in the area after LaGuardia and JFK were rendering inoperable by the nuke, also served as evacuation points. Those that stayed behind were left to eek out whatever meager existence they could, as the fallout killed most of the sea life that fishermen could have used to support themselves and killed off many of the crops they attempted to grow. The grand houses and shops of the Hamptons lay abandoned, as the rich and upper middle class that formerly summered there now found that they had more important matters to deal with.

In the Hudson Valley, a second nuke meant to take out the United States Military Academy at West Point left many in Westchester County in dire straits, caught between the two blasts. Much of the Hudson Valley was contaminated by the dual attacks, more coming when Indian Point melted down soon afterwards. The NYANG base at Camp Smith was another casualty of the West Point blast, due to their proximity. Stewart Airport in Newburgh would have made a good evac point, but it, too, was ruined by the West Point bomb. Needless to say, the fallout from the explosions contaminated the reservoirs that supply New York with water. Survivors in this region either attempted to move north to Albany and points north or Connecticut. Although according to >>2745727 Albany is full of fallout due to a nuclear meltdown...


Another missile hit Fort Drum near Watertown a little east of Lake Ontario, presumably to take out the base of the 10th Mountain Division. The fallout contaminated the lake, along with the surrounding area (not too familiar with the area, not too sure what's around there).

Many of the suburbs on the New Jersey side of the Hudson were wiped out by the New York bomb. Northern New Jersey had to deal with the fallout of it as well. Mid New Jersey was the only part of the state to merit an actual strike, hitting Fort Dix/McGuire AFB/NAES Lakehurst (not too familiar with this area either, so someone else should handle the result of this strike). Southern Jersey's suburbs took some of the force of the attack on Philadelphia, fallout scattering the rest of the area (again, not too familiar with this area, someone else elaborate).