Great post NP!... here's a blog of my own in the US recently...

Geschrieben von basecampUSA am 03. September 2005 19:46:24:

Als Antwort auf: Noch eine Portion Betrachtungen zu New Orleans ..... geschrieben von NoPasaran am 03. September 2005 16:32:50:

The dominos will start to tumble within a few weeks, that's for sure. New Orleans is our MAJOR southern hub of commerce... we may lose the major portion of our grain crop and other agricultural exports if they don't get the port going by at least 75% by end of September.

I laughed myself silly when I heard they released the strategic oil supply -- THE REFINERIES ARE DOWN, DUMMIES! Where are you going to turn the crude oil from the strategic oil reserve into gasoline, diesel and heating oil for the whole nation? It's going to be a damn cold and long winter! Heating oil may get up to $4.00/gallon... that will devastate a lot of poor and elderly across the land.

I worked as an engineer in the oil industry for years. When you have had a plant under water, it takes MONTHS to get it safely on line again with a lot of personnel. Where are they? -Evacuated! When they can get back in, where will they live? Where will they eat? First of all, POWER has to be restored, that is going to take a lot of time... priority to save the economy of the Untied States will have to be industry sector and supporting workers down there. Temporary worker towns, trailer cities next to refineries and power plants, shipping centers....

IS ANYONE LISTENING? We have to start preparing for recovery PARALLEL to what is happening in rescue and relocation efforts. You can't do one and then start on the other - they have to go hand in hand or the whole damn thing will go down the drain and us included, not just the "refugees" of NOLA. we have to plan NOW!!!

The stock market is resilient, but we just don't know HOW resilient in the face of what has happened (and what might yet come upon us.... another hurricane? - an earthquake or tsunami? -- who knows). How many business servers went down? The entire business district in NOLA is virtually detroyed, records with it. Orders, billing, shipping & expediting -- the entire logistics of commerce has been hit and Wall Street is trying to keep a straight face.... -not for long. It is bound to start crumbling pretty soon.

Hot air is all you get from politicians - congratulating each other - patting themselves on the back for thier puny efforts is all you see on TV. I wonder how many top execs and politicians are quietly pulling all thier assets out and cashing in thier chips so they will be ready to run when the sh*t hits the fan in a few weeks or months...

(Sorry, I wish I could express my sentiments this well in German.... the best I can do is "alles nur scheisse!" ;-)


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