The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Twelve Months, chapter one
Mira:
--- Quote from: Mr. Mouse on January 03, 2026, 02:49:05 PM ---Thomas was done with the screaming and dozing before Lara hit the beach back in Peace Talks.
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Which is amazing. Certainly didn't take too long for Thomas to get through all the pain he'd caused others.
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Not exactly in my opinion, an exhausted stupor isn't exactly getting through the pain he caused others. It's more of he was in such bad physical shape that his body and mind has checked out in order for him to survive.
page 330 Peace Talks
--- Quote ---I felt what my brother felt, which wasn't much. There was distant pain, but mostly he had sunk into an exhausted stupor. His mind had been overwhelmed by physical stimuli. Now he sought blessed shelter in oblivion. "He's. . .unconscious.
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--- Quote ---Jim has made jokes about how he's being watched by the government because of his research into the effects of an EMP on a major American city. Combining that with living on the Gulf Coast with hurricanes my whole life, I find it pretty believable.
There are some parts I think would be different. The part I find hardest to believe is that many of the streets wouldn't have been made passable by the people of Chicago. Pushing cars to the side of the road isn't that hard. It depends on how much the roads were blocked by debris from the battle. The highways would be harder to make passable, though. If streets were passable, it would be pretty easy to evacuate large numbers of people. Even without the roads being cleared, it's not that hard to walk out of a disaster area.
It would take a while to clear streets. The 82nd Airborne's engineers cleared about five and a half streets a day after Katrina.
The city would probably be a ghost town. New Orleans was 90% evacuated before Katrina and the population was halved by the evacuation. Over half the people just didn't come back.
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There machinery and vehicles were still operational after Katrina. That makes a huge difference! The impression I got from the book was cars weren't working. It sounded like Chicago was more like the aftermath of an F5 tornado than the flooding that happened after Katrina. To clear destroyed buildings takes heavy equipment.
GreenMysticalUnicorn:
It's like all that magic that got thrown around ruined all the electronics.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 04, 2026, 02:42:49 PM ---There machinery and vehicles were still operational after Katrina. That makes a huge difference!
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That was my point. That clean up is pretty difficult in a familiar disaster, much less one we aren't prepared for. That the depiction was realistic. I just think side streets would be relatively easy to clear. All the cars in the way would have been in drive when the electronics gave out. They could just be pushed aside to get at least one lane clear. That would probably have been a top priority for people who needed those streets.
But the population would be drastically lowered (but Jim wrote that part differently than I think would have been the case), so who knows if there would be people to clear the street? That's why I said it's the part I found least believable, not unbelievable. It's arguably how it would happen. I just don't think so.
The overall destruction of, and inability to replace, infrastructure is very believable. The degradation of infrastructure after the disaster is believable. The continued pile up of more garbage is believable. It took at least twelve months to clear the debris after Katrina.
I cite Katrina because it's the only example of a major disaster hitting a modern big city I have any familiarity with. And New Orleans is very small compared to Chicago.
GreenMysticalUnicorn:
That’s really interesting.and super intense. I had heard there were areas years after still not cleaned after Katrina
tubbyk:
Re: Sample chapters speculation about Thomas -
(click to show/hide) So the Svartelves will accept a blood relative of Thomas’ to kill instead of Thomas? Here comes Ebenezer’s big sacrificial moment and voila, Harry inherits the Blackstaff. Cue another power up.
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