Editing The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Washington (section)

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* One cool thing is that the ferries, which transported most of the Seattle population, were colonized by entrepreneurs looking to cash in on transport needs. When that falls through due to lack of customers (duh) the ferries become retrofitted into slow, steam-powered dreadnaughts armed to the teeth and used as a hoarding cache by the now-shore-raiding entrepreneurs. They still take passengers across in exchange for food, which they try to farm grow on the upper decks (which they covered in dirt).

* Notably, the internet servers in the city would be fine, and provided enough power could be located (say, the Grand Coulee Dam survived, which it probably would), the internet would still remain intact (or at least the Seattle servers).

* About a year before the bombs went off, some scientist in Seattle rigged up coffee plants to grow in Pacific Northwestern conditions. The only downside was that the caffeine levels were lower in the new plants. When somebody found the lab overgrown with coffee plants, he took to planting these things all over the place. The Seattlites who were still left decided that this was a great idea and planted coffee on every available patch of dirt. This has lead to a weak cash-crop export: people want coffee outside Seattle, but the ground and concentrated coffee is all everyone really wants, and it is difficult to extrude the weaker levels of caffeine from the bean.

* Kirkland was far enugh away from the blast zone that it only got hit with a pressure wave. Because of the minimal radiation kirkland is now one of the most important outposts in the new seattle.

* Lake washington is now a dry crater now because of the pressure wave almost instantly evaporated it now there are small pools formed at the bottom of the crater. After the lake almost instanly evaporated there was a major rainstorm that lasted for several days. It eroded parts of various structures like parking garages and basically erased away some of the roads. now the already wet weather is WORSE now and there is even more snow in the winter in addition to the ash from the bomb. now if you want to go anywhere in the winter you'll need a flamethrower to tunnel through the 10-12 sometimes as high as 19-20 feet of snow. in the summer the heat is in excess of 70 degrees except at night where the weather is as low as ten degrees. and it snows almost 3-4 feet in one night and then when the scortching heat hits it all melts instantly and flows in a deluge through the streets to the waterfront where it fills up the pools at the bottom of the great dry lake.

*The radiation in the water mutated the local orca population (resident pods J,K, and L) from being simple large dolphins into fully sentient psionic cetacean overlords...and they are NOT pleased about all the noise, pollution, and lack of fish for their young that the human population of the Sound resulted in. 
 

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