I'm glad you liked jeffers' post. I agree that in some ways he was well off the mark, but there is so much good food for thought in that post that I've reposted it about ten times, and recieved thanks each time. It is very sobering, and we need to remember that this disaster is out of the league of any and all of us - and it is now clear to me that it will have longer lasting effects than 9/11 - something I have been concerned about and held my breath about until today, and this post.
Don't know why people are taking so long to realize it.
What happens when you have to relocate something over half a million people, shut down a major number of refineries, mess up what is often called the number one port in the country, stop the flow of imported oil, and have all these troubles on TV?
Add to that the contemporary need to have fixes within 5 minutes, and then have no good coordination for several days (which is really not unusual in a big disaster, because of logistics)?
It makes problems. But this is life.