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What I find eerie is that they stroke out Grindavik from the signs: https://twitter.com/grindaviknews/status/1724286780914962487 https://twitter.com/grindavikn
by mrtksn 3y ago
What I find eerie is that they stroke out Grindavik from the signs: https://twitter.com/grindaviknews/status/1724286780914962487 https://twitter.com/grindaviknews/status/1724286780914962487
I know, they are doing it to inform people that they shouldn't go there but it gives it such a post apocalyptic vibe.
- 4ggr0 3y agoWell, to be honest, for Grindavik we could currently be talking about a Pre-Apocalyptic situation :)
- Nifty3929 3y agoI wonder if this is a fiction genre. Can I read a book that starts with a happy town with not much going on, builds up to just before a catastrophe, and then ends? Maybe like Part 1 of Seveneves.
- rob74 3y agoI read this book recently: https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1635421691/ https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1... - don't want to give away too much (that's why I'm not linking to the Wikipedia article), but it fits the genre you are proposing - except spanning the entire world, not just a town.
- 4ggr0 3y agoMaybe you can find something on this list, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic I looked at a few books on this list, but not every book seems to really be about pre-apocalypse. Pre-Apocalyptic fictions sounds like literary edging :D
- mananaysiempre 3y ago“The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis kind of has that feeling for a while. I couldn’t really get into it, though; it’s undeniably a well-written book, just not the kind of book I wanted to read.
- hef19898 3y agoThat was my hope for Fear the Walking Dead, a show about society collapses under a zombie apocalypse. Instead we got some hints in a pre-zombie LA, went straight to a cordoned of quarantine zone and a time jump to "now the world, except your little suburb, went to hell". Seems writing convincing stories about why everything would collapse is a lot harder than stories set after an assumed collapse.
- 317070 3y agoSounds like the movies "Don't look up" and "Melancholia" Not much really happens, all everybody knows is that doom is imminent. The movies are mainly about how the different characters handle this situation. That said, I am still waiting for a movie that just suddenly ends with a car crash where the main protagonist dies, fully unrelated to the story.
- prewett 3y agoThe last episode of Downton Abbey, Season 3 is reasonably close to that.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoA bit reminiscent of the ending of No Country for Old Men, although you never find out if he actually dies.
- Aerbil313 3y agoOn The Beach. So much doom I literally can’t finish it. Ok it’s post-apocalyptic but reads like it’s pre-apocalyptic.
- tangus 3y agoIt's the standard practice when the road is closed. It doesn't give apocalyptical vibes to me, but maybe roads break too often where I live :)
- _ph_ 3y agoIt is the usual way of denoting that there is no turn right which leads to the designated location. Usually because of some road closure. Of course here it has a strange vibe to it.
- rob74 3y agoYeah, standard procedure (here in Germany too), except usually it's the road that's closed, and not the entire town...
- alttab 3y agoThis is an American interpretation. Here in the US, cones, lights, or lane-blockers are used to close exits. Culturally, its because American's won't read a sign and follow the instructions if we can still "do" it. You have to physically block us, and its too expensive to change all the signs.
- ceejayoz 3y agoMy favorite is Chicago's reversible express lanes, which have thirteen physical gates you have to blow through in order go to the wrong way. I always wonder if they add another set every time someone still drives through them all.
- rob74 3y agoNah, it's actually the same here in Germany too - I live near a railway crossing which was recently rebuilt and couldn't be used for a few weeks. The "strike-through" at the intersection was just the first step, then there was a first barrier blocking half the street, with a sign "residents only", and then a bit later a second barrier, but still some people just absolutely had to drive past all those barriers until they were literally in the middle of the construction site to find out that no, it's really not possible to cross the tracks...
- meheleventyone 3y agoThey aren’t closing the exit though as it’s needed so people can get down there for quite a few reasons. There are actual manned roadblocks a bit further in.
- strken 3y agoNot that it's quite the same, but I wonder how common it is to have a place struck off of official maps and signs for safety purposes? I know of one, Wittenoom[0] in Australia, which was removed due to being heavily contaminated with asbestos, but I wonder what other examples are out there. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
- Rebelgecko 3y agoThere was a lake that was removed from the maps of a state park near me, although that was to prevent it from being over-visited
- lisper 3y agoJust FYI, the past tense of "strike" is "struck", not "stroke". It could be argued that it should be "stroke" to parallel words like "break-broke" and "wake-woke" but it's not. English is weird. (And the past tense of "hike" is "hiked", not "huck" nor "hoke", which aren't words at all [UPDATE - turns out they are, see child comment from u/GrinningFool], but they probably should be.)
- Tempest1981 3y agoOr they meant this def'n of stroke: > a mark made by drawing a pen, pencil, or paintbrush in one direction across paper or canvas.
- GrinningFool 3y agohuck - to throw or toss; to launch oneself in the air hoke - to give a contrived, falsely impressive, or hokey quality to
- lisper 3y agoWell, whadyaknow. TIL.
- GrinningFool 3y agoMe too, for 'hoke'. For 'huck' I first encountered it watching Tucker and Dale, as in "he just hucked himself in the wood chipper!"
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- manojlds 3y agoApocalyptic vibe would be signs overrun with weeds and such and cars stranded on highways