> I read recently that FEMA stated in early 2001 ** that there were three
> likely, yet major, catastrophes that could happen in the US:

> ** http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3335758

You'd think it had been written yesterday, it's so accurate

I heard a talkback caller mention the Montreal Police strike

"8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, _ Montreal police went on strike.
By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown
stores had closed because of looting. Within a few more hours,
taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that
had competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper
killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels
and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home.
By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred
shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads
of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in
property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had
to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order"

Doesn't take much or long for order to break down. With little
or no chance of being brought to account for crimes, small wonder
it happened in New Orleans too

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