Talk:The City of Light/@comment-69.59.97.243-20150224085117

i just spent the past 3 hours catching up then got a map out and tried to figure out where the City of Lights could be. We know that Tondc used to be Washington D.C. and there is an actual place called Mount Weather with in 5-7 hours of Washington (driving) So we can assume that the Mount Weather in the show is in a similar location (to the west of D.C.) Camp Jaha is located s/sw of the original dropship (Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia [from this website]) Jaha traveled to the dropship before traveling on to the Dead Zone, which makes the dead zone north of where everyone else is. (this is also supported by the image of the Brooklyn Bridge and the statue of liberty in the background from when Jaha first lands in the middle of the dead zone) Since we know that New York was destroyed in the nuclear war its safe to assume that it isn't the city of lights. We can assume that Zoran (the little boy that found him in the desert) and his family are not camped too far away from where jaha lands, puting their camp (and consequentally where Jaha is taken by grounders) some where near, if not a little west of new york (to the east would be the atlantic ocean) When he takes his group through the dead zone, he first tires to relocate where their camp was to orient himself, then Emori tells John to travel north. Which means that the city of lights is somewhere north of where New York used to be. (Also within 2 days of travel since a human can only survive about that long [almost] with no steady supply of water) If you look on a map there is no obvious place that stands out as a possible city of lights, but after an atomic bomb blows most of New England into a desert, its probably safe to assume that the city of lights (if it even really exists) is in the ruins of what used to be a mundane city turned into a haven from the desert. (I say mundane because it probably wasn't a main target when nuclear missles were being fired in order to have survived this long to be considered a city of lights) Sorry about the long rant but I got really excited trying to figure this out.