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To: Ken who wrote (4874)	3/20/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

C.K.: Thank you for those excellent links and for your nice 'Welcome' pm message! That disaster in Australia (I missed several of the links you supplied) is simply a harbinger of things to come in hundreds of US cities, as well as hundreds/thousands of cities world-wide. The only thing that surprised me is that there were not more localized, and spreading individual fires. That disaster should serve as a model for prediction of what will occur in so many cities next year: basically an 'implosion' within the radius affected, quickly followed by a gross societal cascading 'explosion' externally, spreading outward affecting many external sectors, (a rock dropped in a pool of water is a gross analogy). Notice how long it took them to bring back near-normalacy, in the best of times? Notice how they had to relay on ourside sources for key supplies? The denialists and non- and under-informed will NOT ever have ANY true understanding of the seriousness of all societies being in harm's way, until and unless they can, AT MINIMUM, grasp the fact that unlike any city experiencing a major disaster in normal times, next year, there WILL NOT BE-CANNOT BE ANY HELP FROM OUTSIDE! (when disruptions will occur simultaneously, or nearly so, thruout the region, country, and world!)! NONE! Contemplate the realities of Victoria, Adelaide, LA, SF, etc., when they experienced disasters, if they had not received help from the outside! (for example, LA has had fire-fighting crews coming in from a number of states, I believe also Canada). Ken "its too late, too interdependent, too interrconnected, and too universal!"