by Saxon Dog » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:36 am
Salt mines are the best shelter. They are generally large, since salt is a high demand commodity thats fairly easy to dig. You can put a lot of people in one and have room left over for animals and all the fodder they'd need. And they're very dry and stable. Think about it, if there was any groundwater, it'd be salt water, not a salt mine. So they're pretty much all in geologically quiet areas. You still have to pump fresh air to the mine tho, and that air would need to be cooled, so you'll need a source of cool, and thats generally groundwater, which might have to come from a well at some distance.
Pretty much everything on the surface would be cooked. I'd imagine some of the smallest stuff would survive, bacteria, real small bugs, burrowing rodents might sneak a few thru. Ocean life would get hit hard but come out the best long term. No food coming down would kill off some species and cause a ripple effect in the food chain.
There would probably still be some oxygen producing microbes. The balance in the atmosphere would swing towards CO2 tho, since volcanoes would still be erupting, and no trees breathing it in. But After Man comes back and re-plants the whole planet, the CO2 rich air would cause them to thrive til it reached balance again.
The tides are going to come up due to thermal expansion of the oceans. That takes time tho. Its a big ocean.
N Korea will be in Year 2. A lot of places have Bomb Shelter Cities already built, some from the Cold War, some from WW2. The Maginot Line would be a good shelter.
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