"Actually hoover lasted for a few thousands years as a building but yah it works for about 50 years."

"I've seen this film before and today watched it again.
I'm posting it here because it takes a amazing look at what happens in the absence of human presence...
Basicly what a Post Z Day world would look like with a limited or absent human population...

Electricity, Buildings, Animals wild and domesticated, and
The City of Pripyat, Ukraine the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster which was quickly abandoned are all discussed.

Other issues discussed: Wildfires spreading into and through citys
How quickly will roads become unuseable or indistinguishable?
Which structures will last and which won't?
What if unusual speices such as lions escape from zoos?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4939078184096254535&hl=en

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"Yeah, fires always cause a regrowth of nature, so everything would become mostly forest and jungle."

"For anyone who has not seen it or does not own a copy, I highly suggest getting it and using it as part of your block training (for yourself and interested parties). Suffice to say, after 25 years, the landscape would be vastly different than what most expect. Consider all those fires with no one to put them out too.

as far as the nuclear plants, they will shut down earlier due to the need for human interaction. Windmills will also seize up in short order."

"Good point I believe the Amish are more prepared than the rest of us. They spend every day without all the simple luxuries we have grown used to. Your modern day farmer depends on lots and lots of diesel, chemicals, man made fertilizer and hybrid seed corn. Without anyone producing these products it wont take long before agriculture as we know it ceases to exhist. You can replant the grain you have but your going to get some sad looking ears of corn. Without fertilize and lime what crops you do raise won't look anything like what we see today. Without herbicide you'll spend most of your day hoeing rows and without insecticide bugs and worms will damage your crops further. I know I'm not painting a very pretty picture but people need to catch on to the fact that their is a lot more to farming than just throwing some seeds on the ground. Without modern technology farming is hard, backbreaking, unrewarding work. If you suck at it, you'll starve!"

"there are 104 nuclear power plants in the US and even with fail safes they will eventually break down and cause a meltdown..."