[quote=Gowi]We're a rag-tag group of barely competent folks trying to make due who can probably barely feed ourselves, animals added on that and people are going to starve you know?[/quote]

Speak for yourself, Jake knows how to roll solo (IE: Make fires, cook game.) Heck, he's probably the most competent person in the group.

I mean, really, how useful are 17 year olds going to be in the apocalypse?

[quote=Gowi]
Except the abandoned cars and automotive wrecks would still be flooding the bulk of metropolitan and city highways. Not to mention any structural damage that causes parts of highways to collapse (see: Fallout, The Last of Us), and so on.
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Hence all terrain vehicle and or back-roads.