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Chapter Two
(Part One)
It didn't get any easier. With the advent of a car-less society thanks to EMP. The only ones with cars were the ones that had the least amount of electronics in their vehicle's chassis'. Since there wasn't many who owned a jeep, the denizens of Woeville were on foot and that made life extremely difficult walking a fair distance to get anything done.
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On top of that clear skies were rare and far in between. Going outside was nervewracking because one didn't know exactly what weather system was going to bring what sort of long-lasting problems; the clouds being ominous and threatening. Whether the climate circulation system was bringing in radiation from those cities that were decimated by the nuclear fallout. What Haruo and River tried to do was to restrict their time in any form of precipitation and to shower off well after doing so. Some of the megaton bursts weren't air-bursts - some were targeted to take out ground-targets which meant a surface-detonation that kicked up increased amounts of radioactive dust that went into the stratosphere and started circling the globe.
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One could say though that the community newspaper girl was one hardy little human; she was out in all weather to make her deliveries. No radiation was going to stop her from making her rounds. Hopefully that wouldn't prove to be the death of her.
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Haruo had found a workbench in the abandoned military base, which owing to it being a military detachment site wasn't nuked off the face of the planet. There they were able to start constructing things that would help them get through their life.
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There was a fishing site near the base that Haruo saw was stocked with fish, but unfortunately the skill level required to catch these fish was far too high, he needed to start on the minnows, but unfortunately that meant trekking out to an oasis in the middle of the Watcher-forsaken desert and he wasn't about to suck down precious water resources for that while they had so little. Fishing was going to have to wait, at least until they got water-purification reservoir where they could get drinking water that was not potentially contaminated.
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What Haruo and River had was solace in each other, a comfort and a balm in trying times. And that would prove to be both a blessing and a curse. What rations they had were going to be lessened as interactions of that sort, led to "increases in population". Increases in population meant more mouths to feed - therefore in a restricted food situation, more population means less resources to go around.
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Sometimes "holding off" was better for the sake of their limited resources.
(end Part One)
