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[MR_PLINKETT]

I'm more curious about what made everyone abandon their cars there. Having the traffic on just one side can be explained if they were convinced that aid is coming in - in that case they would keep one side free for incoming traffic, since it's likely that not everyone cold evacuate, so there were vulnerable people left behind. (Or, if you want a darker and even more convincing reason, imagine armed military at both ends of that bridge directing traffic. It's not unlikely that it got there at some point.) But... why all the abandoned cars?

Because traffic was backed up/stopped. Ether from a checkpoint/wreck/ or it just being clogged. So people felt instead of waiting for hours abandoning their cars was faster. And with the influx of reanimated monstrosities I'd abandon my car to in that situation.

[Sc0ut]

Yeah. I can imagine scenarios in which people would have left the other lane clear; and I can imagine scenarios in which they either abandoned their cars, or died in them. I'm having trouble imagining one in which both of those things happened.

Exactly.

The other possibility is that both lanes were blocked at the time of the exodus, but that at some later date, say during a Danish Reclamation attempt, vehicles were removed by the military so they could get their own vehicles through. And since the team is heading to one of the Reclamation attempt ports, according to the Home Crew, having already been through the last stand point of Copenhagen, it's likely the Danish Army did some bridge clearing in addition to airport clearing, etc. at that time.

I like this idea, I think it's the only one that adequately explains all this imo.

Because traffic was backed up/stopped. Ether from a checkpoint/wreck/ or it just being clogged. So people felt instead of waiting for hours abandoning their cars was faster. And with the influx of reanimated monstrosities I'd abandon my car to in that situation.

I would certainly try to make an escape on the free lane before deciding to abandon the car in this case, police be damned (I will run police over if they try to prevent me from escaping rash monsters, you heard it here folks). Cars aren't armored like the tank is, but there's no doubt you have more survival chances in one than on foot. (marginal anyway)

[Mayabird]

There were highways full of abandoned cars in Atlanta after a rather minor snowstorm so the whole thing with abandoned cars is the least weird part of it.  We've seen abandoned cars on one side of the road all throughout this journey anyway. 

[thorny]

Those cars in Atlanta appear to be on both sides of the road, though.

I'm not puzzled that some people abandoned cars -- either running out of gas, or somebody in the car trollifying, would explain that. I'm puzzled that other people didn't try to drive around them and fill up the other lane, shortly after which the same problem would occur in the other lane, resulting in abandoned cars on both sides of the road.

A clearing operation some time later would indeed explain it. They wouldn't have needed to clear the whole road, just the places such as bridges where tanks couldn't just go around through the fields.

[JoB]

I'm kind of surprised that all the traffic is on only one side.  I'd have expect the fleeing populace to have used both sides.

I'm afraid that you'll have to take the situation shown as symbolic, rather than a photographic reproduction. For starters, the actual Nye Lillebæltsbro has three lanes per direction:

[thorny]

Well, let's see. It hasn't got a gas tank.

Electrical fire?

And how much of the tank itself is built out of anything that can burn?

[JoB]

Well, let's see. It hasn't got a gas tank.

That's not a given. While the actual propulsion system is electric, the batteries are recharged by a multifuel (i.e., combustion) engine + generator. And all the fuels Minna mentioned as acceptable happened to be flammable liquids.

(Though I'ld imagine it to have interesting effects if one were to just throw any suitable find into a single tank, where they'll happily unmix and form strata per density.)

[thorny]

That's not a given. While the actual propulsion system is electric, the batteries are recharged by a multifuel (i.e., combustion) engine + generator. And all the fuels Minna mentioned as acceptable happened to be flammable liquids.

That's a point. I guess I wasn't thinking of the combustion chamber as being under the hood; but I suppose it might be. (A gas tank isn't generally under the hood either, but gas lines are. A damaged gas line dripping onto hot engine parts can certainly cause a fire, which is what I was actually thinking couldn't be an issue in this case; but I was apparently too sleepy to type that out clearly.)

[PickleChip]

I saw this face and thought it looked familiar


Page 714 vs. Page 94
Oh, how far we have come.

[MR_PLINKETT]

If they abandon that tank they abandon the radio, which means tuuri will never get to say goodbye to onni.

[Basse]

If they abandon that tank they abandon the radio, which means tuuri will never get to say goodbye to onni.

NO ONES DYING!
Onni is recuperating and Tuuri doesn't have the rash yet.

[MR_PLINKETT]

NO ONES DYING!
Onni is recuperating and Tuuri doesn't have the rash yet.

yet

[Basse]

yet

Those negative waves of yours won't be helping you anytime soon.

[LooNEY_DAC]

Those negative waves of yours won't be helping you anytime soon.

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Pardon me while I squee over the Kelly's Heroes reference.

[yankai]

I don't think anyone who hasn't read the latest page will be here on this board, but just in case

Spoiler: show

I fear I'm going to dream all night about the crew having to sleep without a roof, on the road, surrounded by trolls and murderous ghosts (and Tuuri not being able to say goodbye to Onni, but no one's dying, right?? so that part's just our imagination, right???)