On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:14:03 -0000, pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(PV) wrote:
>Steve Hall <shall1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>How long did it take to get New Orleans up and running after Katrina?
>The clock is still running on that one. The city will likely never fully
>recover. *
True, but primarily because its major industry pre-Katrina was tourism,
and the tourism industry can't really recover until it is percieved by
potential tourists as having recovered. So, catch-22.
Aside from tourism, though, the parts of New Orleans that were im****tant
to the rest of the country, e.g. the ****t and the oil refineries, were
up and running at reduced capacity within a couple weeks of Katrina and
back to full capacity in six months or so.
The fact that they were being operated by refugees living in trailers
is locally tragic and politically damaging, but irrelevant to the question
at hand, which is to say Jericho's implausible isolation. Decimating
thirty cities does not mean that small towns across the heartland are
plunged into their own individual little dark ages. It means everyone
gets to watch on CNN as the talking heads condemn the administraion
for its tardiness in getting the refugees from those thirty cities, all
hard at work rebuilding, out of their FEMA trailers and into new homes.
Everything that those cities ever did that mattered to the people of
Jericho, like e.g. broadcasting CNN programming or sending out
truckloads of assorted goods for consumption, will be restored or
replaced before anyone in a small town in the heartland notices the
absence.
Now, if you imagine the Evil Terrorist/Government Conspiracy had
three *thousand* atom bombs, or maybe just three hundred hydrogen
bombs, we can arrange for Jericho to be actually isolated for a
while. Thirty atom bombs, not even close.
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