The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Maryland

Part of the Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap Project.

Assumed to be in major fallout due to Washington DC and Annapolis Naval Acadamy

Montgomery County

I live in Montgomery County MD, 20 miles north of D.C., so I would figure the two big bad factions would be fighting over something that close to the former nation's capital. Baltimore would, most likely, be a smoldering wasteland by this point in time. I would think the Eastern parts of the state would be fine, unless someone dropped some high powered shit on Andrews Air Force Base and Dover AFB (Dover, Delaware). If anything of my town survived it would be in civil war because everyone would want control, for whatever symbolic reason, of what's left of Washington.

Frederick County

Post-Nuclear strikes, now a major refugee zone for those fleeing the conflicts which I would presume convulse D.C. and Baltimore. Since the leaders of the world are not COMPLETELY stupid, no one nuked Fort Detrick, as it is the center of disease research for the U.S. Military, (essentially the military counterpart to CDC in Atlanta) and no one wanted anything in there to get out (amongst other things, one of the last surviving strains of Smallpox), and it remains a fairly stable zone, all things considered. Declaring itself an independently governed state, until a stable U.S. government tells them otherwise. Current borders stretch West to East: Hagerstown and Harper´s Ferry along the eastern border, and Route 97 as the western border. The Mason-Dixon line defines the northern border, while a line drawn from Harper´s Ferry to Mt. Airy defines the secure area of the southern border, with everything between that line and Clarksburg designated as the initial refugee area. Frederick itself is obviously still in a pretty big fallout zone, but the background levels of radiation 3 years later are tolerable: The wind was blowing south when D.C. was hit. Relatively securing, although not a place to go unarmed, the urban areas of the Independent County of Frederick are well patrolled by the Frederick Guard, formed of former police and National Guard members. Less well populated areas, however, are acknowledged as areas where the local citizens take the law into their own hands, within some limits, and of course there is still a danger from various gang factions warring for control of the areas west of Route 97, which is now a DMZ. The Fort Detrick Garrison (obviously formed of military units based in Fort Detrick) maintains order in the city of Frederick, and Harper´s Ferry, Hagerstown, Westminster, Thurmont serve as garrisoned areas for the Frederick Guard and military units, while a full size base has been constructed at the crossing of I-70 and Rt. 97. Small checkpoints, manned variously by Guardsmen or local militia, are common, and major roads,as well as roads into and out of larger towns, can be barricaded fairly easily within 30 minutes of an alert being given. Still, Frederick *TBC*

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