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Default Lessons from Japan

On Mar 20, 4:17*pm, robert bowman wrote:
Cydrome Leader wrote:
The BP thing sounded like a great combination of people doing stupid
things and everything failing that could fail all at the same time, which
seems typical for disasters of that sort.


iirc, there were some question about the various contractors like
Halliburton not following established procedures or overlooking red flags..
Despite the Monday morning quarterbacking, the situation in Japan is about
as close to '**** happens' as it gets. Unlike some elements of the NOLA PD,
there are people working to make it right knowing full well they're
probably going to die. That takes stones.


Expecting a tsuami after an earthquake is common knowledge.

The fact that the reactors were not tsuami hardened is
surprising...very surprising.

I think people will be going to jail.

And you are right in that some very brave people are trying to clean
up the mess.

TMT