The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Texas
East Texas
Being that Dallas/Fort Worth is a dilapidated wasteland due to lack of fresh water and Houston a large field of glass, as are the several of the large military bases in central Texas and the Army supply base near Texarkana, and much more west of Central Texas, and you already have a near uninhabitable wasteland. Because of this, and other factors to be named, East Texas would probably become the seat of power of the New Republic of Texas.
East Texas is a large rural area with good soil, plenty of surface water, and even more groundwater. Before the accident, it was filled with chicken farms, oil wells, logging operations, and small farming operations. Luckily, after the larger cities in TX were hit, along with New Orleans (shipping and oil processing) and the prevailing winds blowing to the west, there was not too much fallout dropped the central portion of east TX.
Almost all of the above ground water sources are tainted, but due to the large number of aquifer layers through the region, there is plenty of fresh, potable water. The cities that have taken a power hold in the region are Nacogdoches and Lufkin, due to their large populations before the accident. Since the event, a lot of people have moved into the safer region from the outskirts of Houston, Dallas, and Austin.
Many of the people who moved in have filled in the region along US 59 between Nacogdoches and Lufkin, forming a large ghetto of somewhat poorly constructed houses connecting the two cities. Away from the heavily populated areas is huge amounts of land, perfect for farming enough food to support the population of the region. Beyond the availability of enough food to support the populace, there is lots of black gold still being pumped out of the ground which makes for a populace able to move further away from the populated areas to farm. Small refineries have been constructed, and are currently being expanded to allow for more even more readily available petroleum products.
There is also still electricity available to much of the region due to the large amounts of coal easily available near the surface.
tl;dr: Since the rest of Texas is nuked/unlivable, survivors from the large metro areas have moved into deep east TX and have formed a somewhat autonomous region of farmers, lumberjacks, and oil producers.
Other Stories
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 busses 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 Beruit. 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 ayuthority 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 wont 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.
Images
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A lake showing the terrain of East Texas
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Map of East Texas (southern dark red areas being most of what is discussed)
