Editing The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Texas (section)

==Fall of Dallas==

Garland, Texas.

We're one of the suburbs of Dallas, not too crowded, and the Big D wasn't quite big enough to earn a mushroom cloud. So we were pretty okay, at first. I mean, relatively. We're pretty spread-out, for one thing. Dallas is fair-sized, but it's surrounded by like a hundred miles of suburbs, so we weren't all packed in together like the Panic hit, like in Detroit or Philly. The looting took about five hours to warm up, and seriously, who didn't see it coming? The cops stayed home, didn't even try to stop it. Anyone who was smart left downtown quick as they could; they were running buses and trains packed like cattle, and all those bigass redneck trucks finally came in handy; half the drivers just went cross-country as soon as they cleared the off-ramp.

The news crews packed it at about this point, so most of what I'm about to relate is hearsay:

Anyway, some of those shop-owners downtown didn't want to be looted, and so you had a fair number of shootings, and that touched the riots off in earnest. Uh... riot's the wrong word. It was unreal. Everyone says it was the South Dallas blacks or the illegals that started it, take your pick which, but every redneck with a pickup and a hunting rifle made a beeline for downtown and joined right in. There's a guy I work with, former army, he caught one of the last buses out. He said it was like Beirut. Like fucking ''Blackhawk Down''. The rednecks rolled in shooting, but in the dark, they couldn't see who was who and it just turned into a 360-degree spray-and-pray gangfuck.

Whitey came out on top, for what it's worth. The sun came up, and people could distinguish targets, and an awful lot of people were hurt or dead so everyone was thinking a bit more cautiously. The "peacekeepers" called all their buddies, got organized, and swept right through shooting anyone that looked at them funny. A guy at my church was bragging about how many guys he'd shot, said they did a dozen thugs up against a wall, firing-squad style.

The rioters saw how it was going by evening. The smarter ones ran, mostly into Richardson and Rockwall. They burned and looted that shit to the ground, and then melted away while the /k/ommando fags were moping up in Flower Mound. The shooting was mostly over by 8pm, two days after the nukes landed.

Now, things are just... quiet. The phones are down now, Internet's down, there's nothing much on TV or radio but canned PSAs from the 60s. I keep waiting for the army or the Guard to show up, but it's been a week and still nothing. They're probably busy dealing with the places that did get hit, but I'd be much, much happier to see some actual government around here. The police never came back, and the "peacekeepers" never left. They call themselves the Texas Free Army now, and there's more of them on the streets every day. They say we're under martial law. I'm pretty sure they don't have the authority to do that, but I'm also pretty sure that they'll shoot or hang anybody that argues. I saw my first corpse last Wednesday; they shot a guy in the gutter, and just left him there. wouldn't let anybody take the body away. I've seen three more since, another shooting and two hangings.

There's rumors that we've got bad fallout on the way from California and the rest of the hits out west. I want to get out of here, but the Militia have closed the highways. We've got enough food for four more days, maybe a week or so if we really make it stretch, and we were better-stocked than most. All the stores are looted or bought out, or commandeered by the Militia.

I honestly don't think anyone has any idea what they're doing. Another week and the entire area is going to be in a honest-to-god famine, and those gun cunts won't do a thing about it till it boils over into all-out war. I don't intend to hang around and watch. I'm packing what I can, and my family and a few others are heading North. We'll try to make Alberta, if we can.

I'm taping this account, and leaving it with a co-worker who's trying to set up a ham radio. If this message is received by any representative or agent of the United States Government, please make any effort possible to restore contact with Dallas with all possible speed. People are dying there.

-Anon