I also feel the magic of the floods. Think it may be too much Gormenghast at an early age.
Not sure about the post-apocalyptic stories. Possibly I've read too many of them, but at the moment I would say that we are in stage 1) catastrophe: authorities battling against the problem, neighbourliness, appeals for calm - ie, too early for full breakdown.
I don't think you get breakdown of law and order until about stage 3) catastrophe (government in collapse, hunger, roving bands). This is usually the point at which Our Hero gives up on his own smallscale rescue attempts and decides to leave the city for the countryside.
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Not sure about the post-apocalyptic stories. Possibly I've read too many of them, but at the moment I would say that we are in stage 1) catastrophe: authorities battling against the problem, neighbourliness, appeals for calm - ie, too early for full breakdown.
I don't think you get breakdown of law and order until about stage 3) catastrophe (government in collapse, hunger, roving bands). This is usually the point at which Our Hero gives up on his own smallscale rescue attempts and decides to leave the city for the countryside.