Damage Assessment

The effects of the Global Economic Collapse described in "Preppers Haven," continue to affect the United States of America. Unwilling to give up on America, the growing community of survivors in McNamara's Valley in the Ozark Mountains works to assess the damage to their region and to the entire United States. The most urgent need is fresh gasoline and diesel fuel to operate their tractors and vehicles to restart agriculture. Without the ability to farm, they won't be able to feed their families. While rescuing a family from Wisconsin, they pass through Osceola, Iowa, and learn of a community that seems relatively unscathed by the global economic collapse. It appears that the factor that sets apart this community is the presence of the National Guard providing safety and security for their families and neighbors. The folks from McNamara's Valley in the Ozark Mountains take this lesson to heart, and work to disseminate the information to as many people as they can reach by HAM radio. Slowly people in other states begin a slow recovery. The key to accelerating the recovery is encouraging state governors to band together to restart the Federal Government. What they envision is a much leaner Federal government. Whole Departments will be eliminated, along with countless agencies, bureaus, and sub-units of the old Federal Government. The Bill of Rights will play a more prominent role in the new Federal Government. With the tens of thousands of People's Liberation Army soldiers who flooded across the southern border before the global economic collapse the need to get Military Intelligence back to work is urgent.