Morrow Project - Operational Question

[Matt W]

Possible locations for Regional Bases: NASCAR stadiums.

This is a semi-serious suggestion. Most are close enough to population centres that they would be useful for rebuilding, yet far enough to be safe from Nukes. A little creative book-keeping would allow you to hide a lot of fuel, spare parts and food. Entire Boltholes might be in the foundations...

The NASCAR stadium could justifiably have a lot of gear that would be useful in the Reconstruction Effort

Communications Equipment

A control tower (with a "low-power" radio - but that could be upgraded). It wouldn't be implausible to have a mobile TV station, a radio station, a few "Cellphone Towers in a box", lots of handheld transceivers.

Tools

HUGE amounts of tools. Even small machine shops

Heavy equipment

Fire Trucks, Ambulances, Wreckers

Medical Personnel

A good track will have some highly qualified paramedics and trauma medics

Helipads

Many stadiums have small heliports, with rudimentary Air Traffic Control

[dragoon500ly]

Good call Matt!

[mmartin798]

Another plus for NASCAR is the almost continuous amount of construction vehicles there. Moving in hundreds of yards of dirt for a Supercross event one week, removing the dirt for a sprint car event a few weeks later. You would have to pay pretty close watch to see if more material leaves the site than was brought in.

[cosmicfish]

A few comments:

Teams should address needs by urgency. Security first, then water then food etc etc. Hit more than one at time if you have the manpower. The Project had to expect that relocating entire communities would sometimes be necessary as well.

Remember that planning should be for war + 3-5 years, don't give them 150 year supplies if they don't make sense a few years post-war. For radios, for example, the Project may well have assumed that communities would be able to salvage CB's, they probably would not assume that short to medium range comms would be a problem.

NASCAR tracks have three problems: first they tend to be near targets, second they see a lot of traffic, third you can't establish a pattern and maintain security. Personally, I think they fall into the category of "wouldn't it be nice if we could do that!"