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Lets say you live in Timmins Ontario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmins population of 40,000. Nuclear holocaust happe

Lets say you live in Timmins Ontario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmins population of 40,000. Nuclear holocaust happens. Toronto(7 hours away) has literally 0 survivors, only mutants and threedog radio is left. Same with all other large cities. How long would it take for Timmins to notice it happened? Internet likely would be down... but such is life in northern rural parts of Canada. Nobody there associates with people in Toronto. They would see the outage and decide to go fishing. Headed to the river to catch me some sturgeon! It would probably be days before anyone noticed there was a problem. It would then take weeks for anyone to care enough to find out what happened to Toronto. By the time they show up in toronto the radioactive fallout would be greatly reduced. The world is a big place and 'nuclear winter' is just a hypothesis. In fact, with civilization being destroyed... timmins doesnt have to worry about climate change anymore. Though that might be a problem because damn that place is cold. They need some warming.

alephxyz 5y ago
I doubt people would take days to notice that their steady supply of power, petroleums, natural gas, medication, fresh food, etc. disappeared
- incomingpain 5y ago
  >I doubt people would take days to notice that their steady supply of power, petroleums, natural gas, medication, fresh food, etc. disappeared Power wouldn't be cut. The grid would probably be over powered. Most power generation is not near the cities. NIMBY problems with building nukes in backyards. Petroleum products? They are pretty remote, they tend to run higher reserves. Medication and food? Kind of the same thing. You know one thing I didn't consider. Tourism. Maybe someone from toronto would be there and notice and bring it to people's attention. Point I am making isn't to argue over how fast people might notice the destruction of civilization. More, even in nuclear apocalypse, life goes on. Something interesting as well. Right before an apocalypse your internet algorithm will start providing you with how to build survival shelters in the forest. Not camping, not doomsday prepping. Just survivalist type stuff.

alephxyz 5y ago

I doubt people would take days to notice that their steady supply of power, petroleums, natural gas, medication, fresh food, etc. disappeared

incomingpain 5y ago
>I doubt people would take days to notice that their steady supply of power, petroleums, natural gas, medication, fresh food, etc. disappeared Power wouldn't be cut. The grid would probably be over powered. Most power generation is not near the cities. NIMBY problems with building nukes in backyards. Petroleum products? They are pretty remote, they tend to run higher reserves. Medication and food? Kind of the same thing. You know one thing I didn't consider. Tourism. Maybe someone from toronto would be there and notice and bring it to people's attention. Point I am making isn't to argue over how fast people might notice the destruction of civilization. More, even in nuclear apocalypse, life goes on. Something interesting as well. Right before an apocalypse your internet algorithm will start providing you with how to build survival shelters in the forest. Not camping, not doomsday prepping. Just survivalist type stuff.