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Utilities in war torn parts of the world?
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:48 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:48 am
When a group like ISIS claims a city, how do basic utilities continue???
Do they hold the electricians and plumbers at gun point and force them to do their jobs? Or, are the locals more interested in getting on with their daily lives and have lesser concern for which flag is flying over their city?
Or is there just no running water, sewage treatment, electricity, trash removal... and who runs the hospitals, who delivers the "milk and eggs?" These are entire cities we're looking at. I remember what an issue it was just getting fresh water to NO after Katrina and that was without a battlefront to contend with.
Do they hold the electricians and plumbers at gun point and force them to do their jobs? Or, are the locals more interested in getting on with their daily lives and have lesser concern for which flag is flying over their city?
Or is there just no running water, sewage treatment, electricity, trash removal... and who runs the hospitals, who delivers the "milk and eggs?" These are entire cities we're looking at. I remember what an issue it was just getting fresh water to NO after Katrina and that was without a battlefront to contend with.
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Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:18 am to SlapahoeTribe
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Or is there just no running water, sewage treatment, electricity, trash removal...
yes....war is not healthy for children and other living things...
The way the United States fights wars is the best thing in the world for plumbers and electricians...we force them to do their jobs at the point of a pile of cash and they seem to be very open to the idea...other armies not so much....
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:26 am to SlapahoeTribe
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When a group like ISIS claims a city, how do basic utilities continue???
OP must be Senator Hank Johnson. Guam gonna tip over and War gonna allow utilities and curbside trash service to continue.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:37 am to SlapahoeTribe
My wife did medical relief in Eastern Europe in the nineties. She still talks about how they were feces in the water and that killed more people than any of the bombs and guns.
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 10:38 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:38 am to Sidicous
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OP must be Senator Hank Johnson. Guam gonna tip over and War gonna allow utilities and curbside trash service to continue.
I have been to both Iraq and Afghanistan and it is amazing how fricked up it can be and people simply going about their daily lives as if nothing is at all out of place....you don't have to be there personally to see it...take a look at old footage of the invasions and you will see people walking around with grocery bags while small arms fire is popping off all around them.....and taxis...for fricks sake taxis...running through the streets if Baghdad while the Americans are bombing the shite out of the city....it is UNBELEIVABLE...if that shite were happening in Atlanta the civillian population would react like they do in old Godzilla movies...runninng through the streets screaming their head off....but after a few years of being under attack humans simply ignore it for the most part....
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:40 am to SlapahoeTribe
Most of the places we fight wars never had utilities to begin with
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:01 am to germandawg
Just a typical day at the market: 
And meanwhile at the Nigerian market:
Only the ones who refuse to leave the area try for some sense of normalcy in the midst of war. Only the non evacuees left behind, most of the population is smart enough to get the hell out and try to find somewhere safe(r). When the SHTF most leave, only those who cannot or in some way are supporting the resistance to invasion stay behind.
And meanwhile at the Nigerian market:
Only the ones who refuse to leave the area try for some sense of normalcy in the midst of war. Only the non evacuees left behind, most of the population is smart enough to get the hell out and try to find somewhere safe(r). When the SHTF most leave, only those who cannot or in some way are supporting the resistance to invasion stay behind.
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