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Posted on September 7, 2005 under Current Events
With all of the finger pointing and blame gaming going on I thought now would be a good time to take a look at the other side of the equation. Thanks to Blogging Tories member Celestial Junk Blog for this.
For starters, 90,000 square miles is the size of Great Britain. Now imagine the British trying to cope with their entire Island in shambles, and having to evacuate an entire city under horrific conditions and provide housing and care for the flood of displaced people.Or, imagine the entire bottom third of the province of Saskatchewan being without infrastructure; in other words all the roads in the populous part of the province being either blocked by trees or under water, with power and most utilities out. And then, imagine having to evacuate a million plus people… and then some.
Another way of looking at the scope of things might be to imagine the coastal countries of Belgium, Holland, and Denmark, with all coastal regions of Germany being either destroyed or compromised to the point where most infrastructure was unusable. How well could the EU respond, and how quickly?
Good points indeed. Be sure to head over to Celestial Junk Blog to read the entire piece.
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