Not something nuclear, chemical or biological, unless you can put a unique twist on it please! I need it for a story.
Perhaps, due to some geologic movement or earthquake, the water source for a city has been disrupted and might take some months to correct. A city could not remain habitable with no running water for Homes, Apartments, Schools, Government Offices and even for fire hydrants.
With no water coming into a city it might be necessary for most, if not all, residents to move out until services are restored.
Does that help? Good luck.
March 5th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Perhaps, due to some geologic movement or earthquake, the water source for a city has been disrupted and might take some months to correct. A city could not remain habitable with no running water for Homes, Apartments, Schools, Government Offices and even for fire hydrants.
With no water coming into a city it might be necessary for most, if not all, residents to move out until services are restored.
Does that help? Good luck.
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March 5th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
a hugh burrito fart orchestrated from 20 illegal mexicans in sync from a drop house window. that should do it
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March 5th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
listeria or e-coli or some other bacteria in a food source that kills people
not a lot of choice when you restrict the nuclear, chemical and biological sources
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March 5th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Here’s an actual case study where it really did happen. On Christmas morning in 1974, Cyclone Tracy totally destroyed Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory in Australia. Over the next few weeks, the city was evacualted and people were not allowed to reurn until all services had been restored and the place had been rebuilt. A total of 35,362 people (of the approx 47,000 population) were evacuated, 25,628 by air (15,950 in civilian aircraft & 9,678 in military aircraft) and the remaining 9,734 by road, to southern cities for many months.
Here are a couple of links, but a search will turn up dozens more:
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/6a1bf6b4b60f6f05ca256d1200179a5b/a70de9a08d7c7fc3ca256d3300057bb5?OpenDocument
http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/tracy/advanced/National.html
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