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Old 01/01/2013, 09:51 pm   #44
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That doesn't make much sense though; the police/SWAT wouldn't have known Clem's neighborhood had fallen unless they were there. That only has two probable results: 1.) they would've been among the casualties, yet we see no signs of such 2.) they successfully dealt with the problem (which is obviously not the case).
Please. You see the end of one block of Clem's neighborhood and not many casualties, why? Probably because they were busy chewing on downtown Atlanta.

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and "a neighborhood full of corpses and apparent cannibals" rates a bit higher on the alarm scale than simple rioting and civil disobedience (which is how it's described on the radio).
And yet that was exactly what was happening in Atlanta at the time it was being described as civil disobedience and rioting.

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Using Katrina as a benchmark for response times in this case is also a bad one, due to things like flooding and the fact it damaged things like roads and highways
No, you're right that was a poor example, considering the authorities were aware of the potential destruction of Katrina in advance, whereas zombies are a little more unpredictable.
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