>>1221746That's what I was presuming would happen
>one band of survivors gets the Hoover Dam or something and gets the power running again>begins to set up fertilizer factors based on the Haber Process>begins to set up steel mills based on the Electrical Arc Furnace process>absolutely rapes all of their neighbors with their superior population, transportation and weapons>at some point after the first steel mills become operational, but before they run into an equally truculent batch of Chinamen based around the Three Gorges dam, they develop 1890s style streetcar suburbs and reactivate CAHSR to connect them togetherWe can only hope that the Mormons don't get there first.