[Mpls] Emergency preparedness- R.T., MIA: day 2

[Dyna Sluyter]

Title: Emergency preparedness- R.T., MIA: day 2

        R.T., I know your a busy man with all this campaigning stuff, but you really need to think about what you're going to do with the city if you actually get elected. I'm trying to help you out here, just play out a few little scenarios to help get you up to speed on these issues. I know this emergency preparedness stuff is tough, and before the 11th you didn't have to worry about it. So I'll throw in a few more clues to help you along...

        To facilitate the discussion and allow more folks to contribute their ideas. I'm going to throw out a few scenarios and invite suggestions to how the city should respond. Have at it!

1. A supertanker is blown up by terrorists. All other oil tankers quickly put into port and unload, and refuse to take to the seas again. 60% of our fuel is imported.

        What fuels can we domestically produce in abundence?

        Biodiesel, ethanol...

2. Terrorists are thwarted in an attempt to take control of a nuclear power plant just upriver from Minneapolis. The power company wants to keep the plant operating.

        Can you quickly shut down a reactor?

        An orderly shutdown is preferable to a terrorist caused meltdown.

3. The heartland has seen 3 100 year or greater floods in the last 8 years. The 100 year flood plain clearly needs to be recalculated...  After a winter of heavy snows their is a rapid melt and torrential rains.     NOA says the flood will match but go no higher than 1965's record. But a concerned citizen like me sends the mayor an e-mail of an unpublicized Corp of Engineers study that predicts much worse. The Corp study takes into account the effects of man made structures in the flood plain and used the Corp's model of the river valley. Snow removal has already cut deeply into the cities budget reserves... what would you do?

        Who had the most reliable crest predictions for Grand Forks in 1997?

        The Corp.

4. What appears to be a small nuclear weapon has been detonated in the air above the upper peninsula of Michigan. The area of the blast is pretty remote, and their appears to be little loss of life. But almost every computer has gone dead, and many radios are not functioning. Strangely enough, the older equipment seems to have survived better, and the only reliable communications are between a few amateur radio operators with ancient tube type radios. What happened? What would you do?

        Go to your favorite search engine. Look up "electro magnetic pulse".

        If a terrorist could afford only one little nuclear weapon, where would be the most destructive place       to use it?

        Let's see some creative solutions...

        peace,

                Dyna Sluyter from Hawthorne    

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