This is scary, how to survive this scenario ?

Originally posted by citizen smith
I just recently saw '28 Days Later' and a small detail mentioned as a side-effect of the nationwide pandemic jumped out...

The father and daughter holed up in the tower block tried to collect rainwater from the roof, and he mentions that just a few days after the evacuation order and society stopped functioning, the rain stopped falling over London

if you think about it, the amount of rain that the country is known for is largely influenced by many tons of pollution particles in the air from vehicle exhausts/industry/etc which water vapour condenses around and then falls as rain.

Take away that man-made influence and the weather patterns rapildly change, as was shown during the 3-day grounding of all continental US flights on 9/11, which was enough to alter the climatic ambient avg temps, so changing weather patterns (thank BBC Horizon 'Global Dimming' for that one)

During a long-term event, what would happen to small bug-out-location water sources that may be dependant on?

[edit on 29-10-2008 by citizen smith]

Thats one of the reasons I check to see if the water in my area is (A) Pumped or gravity fed , its gravity (B) its sourced from a large body of water not a little reserviour like they have in much pon the country, it comes from Kielder, (C) it requires very litte treatment, in this area they dont need to use sulphates to clean the water up, and only a very low dosage of chlorine is needed. And be pure good luck this village is like many other villages and originaly built along the route of roman roads and scottish cattle droving routes, which means its got easy accessible artesian and ground water supplies.