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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Nov 17 2006
Department of Homeland Security: Riding the wave?
Crescent City residents must be breathing a second round of sighs of relief after the relatively small tsunami actually did roll in on them this week. I know it's not the first time the town's rounded harbor has experienced such a phenomenon. What did surprise me was the many hours it took for the water to actually make that surge into the harbor area. It's wonderful that we've heard of no injuries. The damage is estimated below a million dollars, and after the natural disasters we've seen in recent years, that's not a daunting figure at all.
The whole incident does seem to have prompted urgency in spending Homeland Security tax dollars to get those warning systems into place for future events. I do hope Homeland Security will take more care with this spending than they did when opting to shelter Katrina evacuees on cruise ships at a cost of three-hundred dollars per person, per night. That particular kind of mismanagement drew a comment or two after a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform report (pdf) was released earlier this year.
posted at: 05:22 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
Crescent City residents must be breathing a second round of sighs of relief after the relatively small tsunami actually did roll in on them this week. I know it's not the first time the town's rounded harbor has experienced such a phenomenon. What did surprise me was the many hours it took for the water to actually make that surge into the harbor area. It's wonderful that we've heard of no injuries. The damage is estimated below a million dollars, and after the natural disasters we've seen in recent years, that's not a daunting figure at all.
The whole incident does seem to have prompted urgency in spending Homeland Security tax dollars to get those warning systems into place for future events. I do hope Homeland Security will take more care with this spending than they did when opting to shelter Katrina evacuees on cruise ships at a cost of three-hundred dollars per person, per night. That particular kind of mismanagement drew a comment or two after a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform report (pdf) was released earlier this year.
posted at: 05:22 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
