[Restorer]

Last week it was more hysteria on how New York is due to be destroyed by a hurricane any time now, and this week we're being warned about how the New Madrid fault in Missouri is due for another earthquake, which will destroy the entire industrialized midwest.

Given enough time, all these things will indeed happen. For instance, the New Madrid fault appears to have been causing major earthquakes every 100 to 200 years for quite a long time.

We're closing in on 200 years since the last one.

[Kenton]

Oh, you're right of course. My point was these "mega-disaster" scenarios (oh, I forgot to mention the ones about the Krakatoa volcano re-erupting and wiping out all life on earth, and the re-reuption of Mt. McKinley) seem to have gotten to be pretty common TV fodder lately.

It's like they've come up with a whole new genre since Hurricane Katrina, the "imminent natural disaster on a Biblical scale scenario" , which is ok I guess, since "reality" shows are getting pretty stale.

Either the producers think that this kind of programming is going to be really popular and make them a lot of money, or the world really is coming to an end, and the apocalypse is upon us and we are all DOOMED.

Like I say, I think I'll have a beer.