Indeed - but oh does it not have the ring of truth to it? :-)
There's a program on cable here called 'Great Engineering Disasters' - hmmmm.
Andrew Fildes
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On 15/03/2011, at 2:33 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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