Re: Jericho

Richard Evans wrote:
> DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> In message <13slp70dsk5d19@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A Watcher
>> <stocksami@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see much discussion of this show.  It got away from the
survival 
>>> scenario to a conspiracy story.  I was getting tired of the battle for

>>> survival, it was just too gloomy. The latest episodes are still 
>>> compelling, but not so depressing.
>> Personally, I have near zero interest in the conspiracy story, my
>> interest was in the survival aspect.
> 
> 
> Same here. I would much rather see a realistic depiction of what it
> would take to survive such an attack. OK, so the bombs fell in the
> fall when the corn was already grown. You can send hundreds of people
> into the fields to harvest it, but how do you chop the silage for the
> cows? And load it into the silos? How do you milk a few hundred cows
> once the automatic equipment is gone? What do you do with the milk
> when the coolers are gone? How do you move tons of food and muck?
> 
> How are you going to plant in the spring on a scale that can sup****t
> the town? Where do you get your seed?
> 
> So you've got a few horses you can use as draft animals. Where do you
> get the harnesses? The plows and other manual tools?

....much less the fertilizers and insecticides.