Anyone want to consider the consquences of this horrible mess? Or am I the only nervous grandma in the bunch.
14 Reporters blown out to sea?
There's a lot of consequences. One of the more significant ones is that the MSMSOS will now have to stop saying that it's impossible to evacuate a major American city, and another is that they can't continue to give the corrupt politicos in LA a pass. Texas very publically got *FIVE TIMES* the number of people out of the strike zone that LA had to get, in LESS time than Louisiana.
Approximately five million people, all evacuated in about 72 hours.
The greatest danger is the politicians getting into a bidding war over who's going to be the most compassionate with our money. With respect to the damage, we've been taking and recovering from these things for eons, this is essentially just multiple itterations of those prior recovery efforts. Most states and cities have large reserve funds built into their budgets for precisely this purpose, and the private insurance sector provides a massive amount of help. State Farm's disaster team, for just one example, is larger than the entire staff of FEMA. So if the politicians can just control themselves, we'll be fine. Sadly, that's a pretty low probability 'if.'
Kentucky schools already announed a four-day school week, Georgia closing schools two days next week. Personally, I recommend we go to five-days-a-week mail delivery... IMHO we'd save a lot of energy and money by cutting out Saturday delivery.