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Brattleboro questions, positives and negatives, can New Yorker be happy in Brattleboro, high cost of living and low pay, winter sports, nuclear power plants, jobs and money

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Old 08-29-2007, 11:53 PM
 
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Not a pleasant thing to think about.

So Brattleboro is downwind from Vermont Yankee.



Maybe I should stay in NYC and get wacked by the nuke plant in Westchester. I think its name is Indian Point.

Maybe I should have taken that job in the South Bronx and gotten mugged by real people instead of rogue radiation.
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Old 08-30-2007, 12:00 AM
 
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Not a pleasant thing to think about.

So Brattleboro is downwind from Vermont Yankee.



Maybe I should stay in NYC and get wacked by the nuke plant in Westchester. I think its name is Indian Point.

Maybe I should have taken that job in the South Bronx and gotten mugged by real people instead of rogue radiation.
I'd say your odds of getting mugged in the Bronx are much higher than the possibility of a glow-in-the-dark experience from VY.

We can't plan for all contingencies. We have to live somewhere.
I'd rather live downwind from VY than in Memphis where the New Madrid fault zone is overdue and where nothing is built to quake standards.
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Old 08-30-2007, 08:50 AM
 
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I agree with you.

Actually, I met a VY worker one evening in Brattleboro. He spoke confidently about safety standards there.

I'm not sure if I should take him at his word because he has first hand knowledge of the place, or if I should discount him because he works there and needs to protect his job. Actually, there have been media reports of worker unrest at VY because of safety issues, but I'm not sure it was specifically nuclear issues they were worried about or non-nuclear issues, such as the sagging cooling tower that eventually collapsed.

BTW, when the New Madrid fault zone acts up again, the result may be catastrophic, because of the population growth. In the 1812 earthquakes, I think only one person died, because the area was remote. Now, there are millions in the area.

It Can Happen Tomorrow on the Weather Channel had a segment on the New Madrid fault zone. I remember when I first learned about the 1812 earthquakes, I was surprised. I had thought serious earthquakes were confined to the West Coast. Naive!!! Even New York City could have a major earthquake, and no one is prepared for it. I don't think the general public even takes the idea seriously.

Usually, in New York, we worry about man-made disasters, not natural ones. Maybe the recent tornado in Brooklyn raised people's consiousness a bit, but I suspect many considered it a freak incident, which it may well have been.

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