A blog about societal, cultural, and civilizational collapse, and how to stave it off or survive it. Named after the legendary character "Crazy Eddie" in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye." Expect news and views about culture, politics, economics, technology, and science fiction.
The ongoing Flint water crisis has taken a huge political toll on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. That’s the finding of a brand new EPIC MRA Poll released first to WXYZ/Channel 7 and their statewide media partners in Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids and Lansing.
The article on WXYZ's website quoted Bernie Porn, President & CEO of EPIC MRA, who said, “In all measurements for the Governor, he has taken a serious hit because of the Flint water crisis!” The Detroit Free Press quoted Porn again. "I think the slow drip, drip of it -- the e-mails, the hearings ... I don't think any public relations firm in the world was going to change the direction that this has gone."
That's just from Michigan media. Follow over the jump for Fortune Magazine listing Snyder among the most disappointing leaders of the past year.
It's All Souls Day, AKA Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) as well as a day "The Walking Dead" airs. To mark the occasion, I've found an appropriate story that fits in with this blog's original mission of explaining how to survive collapse, the Zombie Apocalypse Index, which ranks U.S. cities according to their potential to survive the fictional civilization-ending plague based on "ability to protect self against the virus, ability to curb the virus, ability to come up with a cure and the ability to survive the epidemic with sufficient amount of food."
If the zombie apocalypse were to ever happen, New York City is apparently doomed. CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists International recently conducted a “totally necessary and 100 percent practical survey” of the 53 largest metropolitan areas in the United States to see which metro region would be most, and least, likely to survive a zombie apocalypse. In the survey, the New York-Newark-New Jersey metropolitan area landed at the very bottom of the resulting Zombie Apocalypse Index, beating out Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, and a whole bunch of other cities not found in Florida. To add insult to New Yorkers’ injury, the survey listed Boston as the no. 1 most zombie-ready city in the country.
A study by Careerbuilder.com corroborates the model’s findings with Chicago one of the worst metro areas to be in during a Zombie Apocalypse. The research was comprised of a weighted index ranking 53 us cities based on 5 different scoresw, Defense, Containment, Cure and Food. The scores were established by analyzing factors such as population density, biomedical research and supply of food to name a few. As for the best cities to find yourself in, Salt lake city UT, Columbus OH and surprisingly, Boston MA were at the top of list. So while New York LA and the Windy city are wonderful places to visit, those of you who are afraid of a zombie apocalypse might wanna consider settling their zombie proof bunkers somewhere else.
The following table from Fortune names nine metropolitan areas to avoid during the Zombie Apocalypse.
Los Angeles and Riverside-San Bernardino were third and fourth least able to survive. That helps explain why L.A. fared so poorly in "Fear the Walking Dead." Las Vegas would be almost as bad off, as Tech Times listed it as tenth least likely to survive.
Not all of southern California is doomed, as San Diego landed in the top ten best places. Follow over the jump for stories about the best major cities to live in during the zombie apocalypse as well as how Michigan fared.
