Boulder... why Boulder?

[Penguine]

Curious as to why the safe zone is Boulder, Co. I can understand Colorado as a whole, but why Boulder? There is no airport, there is no military installation. So why Boulder?

Thanks!

Penguine

[Witch_Doctor]

Good question. Hopefully we'll get an answer. There is one major interesting thing about Boulder. It has a sizable science and research-university infrastructure. I think there is also a satellite control center there too.

[LiamKerrington]

Not sure of what Boulder you write there ... Boulder in Colorado has an own airport; also it is next to Denver. About military services in Boulder/ Denver I have no clue ...
My guess: Boulder like other places in the US established a refugee-camp, but unlike other camps it was not overrun by Zeds. Also military/ national guards/ security/ policy services were able to fortify the camp soon enough to stop the onslaught in Boulder ...

Just guessing ...

[Penguine]

Should of said no 'major' airport. And Boulder is about 45min - 1hr from Denver International Airport. But anyway, just wondering why KC picked Boulder is all. Did he have a map of the US hanging on the wall and toss a dart? Is it someplace he secretly dreams of living one day? Just curious is all.

[Litmaster]

It's his special homage to Stephen King's "The Stand."

Or, he never read it and it's just some crazy-ass coincidence.

[Penguine]

Ahh, gotcha. Thank you!

[Robzombie]

KC can hopefully answer this himself but my guess is that well, someplace had to be picked, so with the mountains and national parks to the west a reason can be made that Boulder wasn't as exposed as other places and had more time to make it safe. I'm guessing as per the current chapter that cold will play a part...so if you move East your moving out of the cold, move north and maybe your getting too far from the stories action to make some things work. Its pretty much due East and might have just looked like an obvious choice.

[Miss]

might be an unintentional homage to King in generel but thinking it over (despite my lack of US geography) it seems like a good place in theory mountains surounding and the cold if I was living in the US and had a Zombie uprising it would seem like a good place to go

[Osiris]

He used it because he likes saying the word "boulder."

As for "unintentional homage" there is no such thing. It is either homage--which is purely intentional--or it is mere coincidence. By definition there is no in between.

[scbubba]

Boulder seems reasonable to me because it is not major metropolitan, it's kinda remote, and then there is the climate. It seems to me that population centers had the main impacts so that the remote areas had the best chances of not getting hit or at least not hard.

So we have places like Boulder and Ft Irwin - middle of nowhere.

Then, of course, it could be a good place for a last "Stand" for humanity.... Or well, it could have been.....