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[bjornwilde]

 So East Coast folks, can you take a gander at these screencaps and tell me if the background looks anything like the current local flora of areas around New York City? I'm guess in Appleseed Alpha they are somewhere around Pennsylvania, New York or New Jersey, likely New Jersey if the half glance at a map is anything to go by.

To me the ecology looks like Nevada and other parts of the Western scrubland.
Six images behind the cut, each 350 pixels wide.




I'm trying to decide how much the environment has changed on the East Coast after two global conflicts (one nuclear) and a century of recovery, despite the occasional local conflict.

Comments

[varadia]

That looks nothing like any current flora I have seen driving through New York or PA. Anywhere.

The land itself is waaaaay too flat leading up to the mountains, too.

[bjornwilde]

Heheh, as one from the West Coast but grew up in Nevada, the flatness didn't even occur to me.

Thanks.

[camwyn]

I've seen that territory, or something close to it. On my road trip through Utah and Wyoming. Lynne's right about it being much too flat; the Northeast may not be serious mountain country compared to out West, but it's not that flat leading into what little mountains we have.

You might want to have a look at Google Street View for the area outside Stroudsburg or Easton for modern eastern Pennsylvania, Hackettstown for away-from-the-big-cities-but-not-really-farm NJ, and Flemington or Whitehouse Station for rural northern NJ. (Well, anywhere in Hunterdon County, NJ could probably serve as rural NJ for comparison purposes.)

[bjornwilde]

Google street view is a great idea! And thank you for mentioning city names. I've never been far East of the Rockies, and only once to the Mississippi.

I think I am going to call it a large basin area to account for the flatness, rather than try to come up with a more logical reason. Even with nukes hitting the Eastern US, 100 years is nothing geologically speaking. And I don't know that nukes can flatten hills/mountains.