RECOVERY TIME

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The government keeps shouting "THREE DAY STORM, ONE WEEK AT THE MOST"

Has anyone got good data on RECOVERY TIMES?

How long did it take downtown Aukland, New Zealand to recover from their power cable failures?

How long did it take New England and Eastern Canada to recover from the Ice Storm? From day of last storm until last house had restored power, how long?

How long from the day of Hurricane Floyd till the last dead chicken/turkey/pig was buried and the cess pools at the packing plants reconfigured?

For any major Hurricane, how long was the recovery?

For inner-city riot zones, how long to recover and what percentage rebuilt?

KEEP IN MIND THAT ALL THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE WITH A "FULLY FUNCTIONING FOUNDATION" OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, TAX COLLECTION AND GOOD WILL.

When I was in West Germany in 1959/60 there were still burned/bombed out areas in the cities. We would still loose a few kids and construction men each year to left-over bombs, mines, and shells from the war.

-- WOODY (WOODY11420@AOL.COM), December 18, 1999

Answers

Good questions. It is best to remember that if y2k damage goes to seven or beyond, "recovery" will be a misnomer. Between the emotional and physical wounds inflicted, representative democracy may never return, the energy sector will have been transformed (by both disillusionment and nationalization), bureaucracy will be shattered (and unfortunately will probably rise from the ashes again, in a very different form), commercial television and the rest of the media will have been exposed as fraudulent, and the materialistic basis of our entire culture will be under virulent seige. Technology will face a Luddite antipathy, computers will be strictly controlled, and the financial/monetary system will be stripped down to fundamentals again, probably with a precious metal standard and no more derivatives, or pie-in-the-sky credit. The judicial/penal system which now keeps nearly one full percent of our population under its control will dramatically change, if solely because the current expense of incarceration is too heavy a burden to carry (and this may mean summary execution for antisocial behavior). I could go on, the point being that "recovery" does NOT mean a return to the world we knew.

-- StanTheMan (heidrich@presys.com), December 19, 1999.

StanTheMan,

We are now way past the point of No Return...as we approach the rim of the Horseshoe Falls...

Question...does the Coroner get called, or does the RCMP get to arrest us for that damn fool stunt???



-- K. Stevens (jstevens@ It's ALL going away in less than two weeks.com), December 19, 1999.


K. Stevens--you know I guess that a hundred years ago, when men were men, etc, bravehearts used to go over those falls in wooden barrels. And survived much of the time! Also tightrope walking over the falls drew big crowds. I've seen the Niagara River just above the falls and it is beyond frightening--it's awe-inspiringly roaringly terrifying. Also went down in the Maid of the Mist once, when I was a teenager. Everybody got to wear oilslickers head to toe, you couldn't hear your buddy screaming in your ear, torrential water was everywhere around you. Wow! (Nostalgia off. Sorry, everybody)

-- StanTheMan (heidrich@presys.com), December 19, 1999.

Well, if you are old enough to remember the Hough riots in the, what, late '60's, I can tell you that it has taken 30 years to actually get to the point of rebuilding the neighborhoods in Hough. The building started in earnest about 3 years ago and has developed into a mini- building-boom.

kcuhc

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), December 20, 1999.


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