And remember, whatever the source of Andrew's information about the generators
(which might not have been a bad idea to me either, if it's true), it might
well have been made up or merely embellished by a journalist or their editors.
Chris
On 14 Mar 2011, at 14:35, Ken Norton wrote:
> What happened in Japan this week is a catastrophe of immense human
> toll. In some cases (the reactors), the problem is going to get worse
> before it stabilizes. But can you plan for something this awful? Not
> really. You can't plan--only react. Unfortunately, the ability to
> react is dependent upon other things (roads, infrastructure) beyond
> your control. We have had state-wide ice-storms wreak havoc because we
> couldn't get generators around to all the locations to refresh the
> backup-batteries because the roads were impassible and the roads were
> impassible because the failed communications network prevented the
> highway department from knowing where to run the salt trucks.
> Hurricane Katrina was a learning lesson in wide-spread damage to all
> forms of infrastructure--of which each one depended on the other for
> relief.
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