POTD: Abandoned House With Everything Still Inside And Intact

VIDEO: "ABANDONED House - Everything Left Behind (WITH POWER) - Old Clockmakers Family Home" -- Uncharted Travel (30 min.)

I've seen other videos and photo essays of abandoned houses still with furnishings and personal items. I suspect that most of those are buildings that for one reason or another are left in a legal limbo: a fight over the estate or that there were no survivors to begin a probate. In any event, the condition of buildings after TEOTWAWKI will depend on the nature and speed of the disaster. A disaster that results in the collapse of government and society but leaves a lot of people alive, initially at least, will probably see a great deal of looting and stockpiles of foodstuffs, goods, and fuel used up. On the other hand, a disaster that quickly kills off most of the population such as a rapidly spreading, deadly pandemic, will probably mean that most structures and their contents will largely be left intact until nature begins to take its toll. Most disasters--nuclear war, comet strike, massive solar flare/micro-nova, will cause wide-spread destruction coupled with large, but nowhere near complete, loss of life. In those cases, it more likely that looting and destruction will impact most settlements, but that there may be isolated instances of finding homes, stores, perhaps even whole towns, that were abandoned but survived the ensuing natural destruction and are largely untouched.