Scotland and Britain Attacks Linked - U.S. Security Goes to Critical

[fuzzis]

The article says U.K. security has gone to critical and that the security at US airports has been heightened. It does not say that we've gone up the color ladder here in the US, unless I'm misreading it.

[SueScribe]

I heard, passing through the living room yesterday, that these terrorists in London were from Birmingham.

Reckon they've raised the threat level in Montgomery or Mobile by now? :-D

[Pirate_129]

The US is still at yellow everywhere but airports and they are at orange. This is the normal status. They are tightening security at US airports, train stations, etc.

http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/programs/Copy_of_press_release_0046.shtm

[SueScribe]

Train stations? Maybe Union Central, but they'd be hard-pressed to ramp up security at every single whistle stop Amtrak uses. Besides, it isn't passenger trains we need to concern ourselves with, IMHO. Freight train crews now run with a maximum of three, usually two, both assigned to the head end. You take a 110 car freight train loaded with the right commodites, a timetable, and a quick lesson on Microsoft's Trains software, and VI-OH-LAH. Problems.

IMHO.

[Ted]

I heard, passing through the living room yesterday, that these terrorists in London were from Birmingham.

Reckon they've raised the threat level in Montgomery or Mobile by now? :-DBirmingham, England - their second largest city.

[SueScribe]

Birmingham, England - their second largest city.

Well, then. I feel much better.:-D

[Pirate_129]

Train stations? Maybe Union Central, but they'd be hard-pressed to ramp up security at every single whistle stop Amtrak uses. Besides, it isn't passenger trains we need to concern ourselves with, IMHO. Freight train crews now run with a maximum of three, usually two, both assigned to the head end. You take a 110 car freight train loaded with the right commodites, a timetable, and a quick lesson on Microsoft's Trains software, and VI-OH-LAH. Problems.

IMHO.

Good points. I think you are correct about the sizable terminals needing the upgraded security. Hmmmm, maybe we could get turtle creek to task some of their "officers" to the downtown terminal. :smt118

[Pirate_129]

Here's the official word on the airports...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/30/us.glasgow.reax/index.html

[Hermione]

Y'all we have a bunch of local folks -- USM faculty and students -- heading off to the UK. One of my best friends is leaving tomorrow, though she's not part of the study abroad program this year. Let's keep these guys in our prayers.

[SueScribe]

Look, there are enough chemical plants due south of Baton Rouge, from St. Gabriel to Reserve, which produce some nasty-wassty stuff, such that a train-jacking of the right train could easily snuff out Chicago and large sections of inhabited lands downwind for miles. No one would have a clue until everyone started dropping where they sat, stood, or laid.

Truly.

[SueScribe]

BUT !! New York's finest are standing at the turnstiles. We're safe.

[SueScribe]

IMO, US freight trains have already been sabatoged . . . . :kekeke:

Hello, darhlin'. How're you doin'? Are you doin' all-right . .

Ummm. Conway did that already . . .

[SueScribe]

. . . let me continue . . . I'm on a roll now about WMDs among us . .

The "faint smell of bitter almond", and then ? Instantaneous death.

That's what the book says. The Hazmat book.

[SueScribe]

Ciba-Geigy? Know the place well. Been there, . . done that. BASF-Wyandotte, however, is the Evil King around St. Gabriel/Geismar. Vulcan Chemicals is pretty scary, too. Chlorine - green clouds that hug the ground and move incredibly fast. Much faster than Vulcan's air-siren warning, which was always behind the facts.

[SueScribe]

I have the emergency EpiPen Auto-Injectors in our ER Kit, I sh-t you not. Thanks to the US Army :) I'm not real sure I'd stab myself in the neck with one, though?

I try to look at the bright side when the Sun will vaporize earth. :-D

An "EpiPen Auto-Injector" ? This will innoculate you against Hydrocyanic Acid leaks ? No kiddin' ?

[Pirate_129]

Will everyone please forgive my typographical error in the title of this thread? I intended to type U.K. - instead in my haste to get this posted, I typed U.S. I did post the link and the reference in my first post is correct as you can see above.

Aaron, will you please correct the title of the thread so as not to mislead anyone? I wouldn't want anyone to be alarmed by reading this typo.


I do that at times myself. Being able to edit the thread title would be a nice option.

[SueScribe]

"We don't make the thing you use. We make the things that make them better." Recite in soft sexy voice. And again, "We don't make the things that kill you. We make the things that will help kill you, quicker." :)

:clap:

Yur peep looks hungry.

Isn't he/she a darlin' ? There were four of them in that particular clutch. It's an Eastern Bluebird. Once on the endangered list, the species has made a comeback in the Southeast, mainly due to "Bluebird Trails" and individual houses that folks erect on their property. My box has hatched many many clutches of eggs. I've watched them fledge, opened up the box to take pictures, and watched the parents bring in nesting materials and food once the babies hatched. Bluebird parents don't mind humans intruding upon the nest. I've actually lifted the lid and had the sitting momma just . . SIT there.

It's another of my little . . hobbies, I guess.

[SueScribe]

I believe there is a youth group from Temple on a mission trip to England right now.

Somebody maybe oughta call them and advise that they stay clear of London, maybe hang out around Yorkshire, or somethin'. Jersey, Guernsey, any of those dog and cow areas of the country should be safe.

Birmingham ain't such a good idea, even if they did see The Full Monty on the sly. It ain't a steel town no more, some say, any more than the other Birmingham is the giant of industry it once was. Or, was that Bessemer?

Anyway.

[SueScribe]

I haven't seen a Bluebird around this place since katrina. Might help if I got the wasp nest out of the birdhouses, though.

:smt108 . . .

Oh hell no Sue, I ain't prepared for the gas chamber; only Antrax and N5H1. I've been trying to get my hands on some mil-spec smallpox vaccine but de USArmy is hording it all for themselves. :smt105

I have an old case of MREs, three freshly-canned cases of tomatoes, four guns and a pond across the road. I'd take an M-60-A1, if the Army'd turn loose of one. That might help. Otherwise?

You seriously seriously . . . have vaccines . . . well, then, Hawk:

I fear that when The Big One comes, all the anthrax and N5H1 vaccines in the storehouse won't be quite enough, or relevant. I'd put my money in horsepower. Horses, actually. Something that has good gas-less mileage. And learn how to live off squirrel meat and possum stew. Collect rain water. That kinda thing. OH - and have on hand plenty of firepower and ammo, for when the Hungry Hordes come lookin' for your squirrels and tomatoes.

[dollfus46]

I heard, passing through the living room yesterday, that these terrorists in London were from Birmingham.

Reckon they've raised the threat level in Montgomery or Mobile by now? :-D

Nah, but Opalika's went out the roof.:-D

[dollfus46]

Birmingham, England - their second largest city.

DuH, even I caught Sue's joke. Ya'll go get yorsef's another cup of coffee and wake up. Heh heh heh.

[Pirate_129]

Shirley Q said she raised her threat level from turkwoise to urange. Said she'd have to stand on the table to get it any higher.:smt118

[dollfus46]

Look, there are enough chemical plants due south of Baton Rouge, from St. Gabriel to Reserve, which produce some nasty-wassty stuff, such that a train-jacking of the right train could easily snuff out Chicago and large sections of inhabited lands downwind for miles. No one would have a clue until everyone started dropping where they sat, stood, or laid.

Truly.

It's scary the mere numbers of targets they can hit that would cause us not just high numbers of casualties, but wreck our economy, cause traffic jams, blackouts, etc and etc and etc. Blow up the bridges into New York city. Just one bridge. Atlanta, New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and on and on. Blow up shipping ports in New York, Charleston, Savannah, Miami.

[Lil Ray]

Will everyone please forgive my typographical error in the title of this thread? I intended to type U.K. - instead in my haste to get this posted, I typed U.S. I did post the link and the reference in my first post is correct as you can see above.


QM, I'm actually glad it was a typo. My first thought as a weekler traveler was how much longer it will take to get through now. The article did mention tigher security but that passengers may not notice most of that. So does that mean there's more they could be doing but just haven't been because we wouldn't notice it anyway?
:confused:

[SueScribe]

It's scary the mere numbers of targets they can hit that would cause us not just high numbers of casualties, but wreck our economy, cause traffic jams, blackouts, etc and etc and etc. Blow up the bridges into New York city. Just one bridge. Atlanta, New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and on and on. Blow up shipping ports in New York, Charleston, Savannah, Miami.

This is true. But, hasn't it always been so? Prior to that day in September, 2001, the same threats existed, just as they do now. Fear can't forever occupy our national lives, can it?

[bpitt]

It's way past time for racial profiling, that's all I'm saying.

[SueScribe]

It's way past time for racial profiling, that's all I'm saying.

That won't work, either. They'll simply find a way around the profile system. We can't profile and examine every darker-skinned-looking individual in this country. Pffffff-ttt. For that matter, we can't even close the southern border - or the norther one - to eliminate all threats.

Britian is doing a fine job right now of handling their terrorist threats, but sooner or later, one of them will go off as planned, just like it will here. I think our reaction to that eventuality is what will matter most. Do we knee-jerk again and invade a country, just because we can or just because we need to send a message, or just because we're P-o'd ?

Let's hope not.

[SueScribe]

"Norther" border. That one is just north of the Northern one. *heh*