what if this was after TSHTF?

[bigpaul]

(31 October 2014, 12:33)NorthernRaider Wrote: BP there was a report published I think it was in NATURE about 10 years ago that said in the west country with its high rain fall and warm climate that if the roads were not maintained or heavily used over 70% of them would become unsuitable for wheeled vehicles in less than ten years. blocked drains, fallen trees and limbs, plant overgrowth, subsidence, landslip, erosion and undermining, leave mould cover etc, add a couple of big floods and bingo the sw is back to preindustrial revolution levels of transport. iE Boat, Foot or Gee Gee

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Cant help but this of the joy the folks in the west country would feel to know they are cut off from bloody London and the damn home counties

yes, this is the kind of thing I was referring to NR, but I think 10 years is a bit fanciful-I think it will be closer to 2 years given a bad winter in between .not sure about the Westcountry in general but it wouldn't take much to make Devon(and therefore Cornwall) to be cut off from the rest of the country given its geology and geography, the recent flooding at Dawlish, the landslides on the Jurassic coast, flooding at Cowley Bridge(Exeter) shows us just how it might go.(a certain person did a piece on this very subject some time ago as I recall).

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I was actually amazed when we moved back to Devon from Somerset just how much road maintenance, gulley and drain clearing and tree cutting is done on a regular basis in this area, if that stopped things would "gum up" pretty quickly. take for instance: a piece of ground at the back of here about quarter of an acre, was cleared, cut down, fenced and gated AND THEN LEFT, that was exactly 12 months ago, the weeds and overgrowth in that field are now 1 metre high and the tree seedlings are now 2 metres high-you would be unable to walk through this now and I doubt if you could get more than 15 feet from the gate, imagine this on a larger scale and I think people will start to realise what we are up against, nature wont stop just because of TSHTF.