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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (10958)	12/12/2011 1:23:06 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Respond to of 23934

I'm not sure if I have seen that particular show. But I have seen similar shows. We may not have snow here, but in my adult lifetime I have seen two events that show me just how precarious our society is. the first was the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Where the riots didn't shut the entire city down, there were certainly pockets throughout the city where it was dangerous to be on the streets. I lived right at the edge of one of the areas. For the year following the riots there was not a night that I didn't hear significant amounts of gunfire at night. The second was the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. I lived about 2 miles from the epicenter at the time. Some stores opened a couple of days after the quake, but they would only allow small groups of people into the store at a time and there were long lines to get in. Once in the store, it was amazing how little there was left in the store. And this was when civilization was still being maintained. Even if some semblance of civilized behavior was maintained, the resources would be picked over very quickly just as if humans became a wave of locusts.