My Hometown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012707435.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead
Every year or two, I'll notice there's some scare-show on TV as to how DC will fare if there's a major terrorist attack, like an A-bomb going off on the Mall. I've written before about these little nightmare shows and the sick fantasies that they always seem to weave about us being able to handle it. What rot. We are incapable of handling anything. I would love to have a copy of this article, and the many others detailing this week's debacle du jour and have them stapled to the foreheads of the morons who continue to talk about emergency preparedness, etc. A quarter of the electrical grid went down from just 5 inches of snow. A lot of it still isn't up, thanks to the apparently genetically ingrained incompetence, arrogance and laziness of Pepco. Can you imagine what even a small atomic bomb would do? We'd be stuck back in the Flint Age for a decade.
We're just pathetic and ridiculous and no amount of planning or proclaiming by worthless bureaucrats and hacks is going to change that. DC is not built or run to withstand anything worse than a normal rush hour. Add a few drops of rain to the mix, and it might as well be Noah's flood. We aren't set up for anything beyond a sunny Spring day.
Every year or two, I'll notice there's some scare-show on TV as to how DC will fare if there's a major terrorist attack, like an A-bomb going off on the Mall. I've written before about these little nightmare shows and the sick fantasies that they always seem to weave about us being able to handle it. What rot. We are incapable of handling anything. I would love to have a copy of this article, and the many others detailing this week's debacle du jour and have them stapled to the foreheads of the morons who continue to talk about emergency preparedness, etc. A quarter of the electrical grid went down from just 5 inches of snow. A lot of it still isn't up, thanks to the apparently genetically ingrained incompetence, arrogance and laziness of Pepco. Can you imagine what even a small atomic bomb would do? We'd be stuck back in the Flint Age for a decade.
We're just pathetic and ridiculous and no amount of planning or proclaiming by worthless bureaucrats and hacks is going to change that. DC is not built or run to withstand anything worse than a normal rush hour. Add a few drops of rain to the mix, and it might as well be Noah's flood. We aren't set up for anything beyond a sunny Spring day.
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