News, Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling (climate, storms)
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WASHINGTON — From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms.
That's what they get when every component of the infrastructure is built to standards that are very soft, not thinking anything tough will ever happen or the climate will ever change, and is furthermore not maintained properly even at those low standards. If this does not change the full magnitude of the politicians' folly will be revealed, and those same politicians will become targets of an angry population that will have to endure a disaster of unprecedented scope and intensity, brought on by the failure of every major component of the infrastructure. With all these holes that are opening up in the roads and the failure of the power systems, civilization as Americans know it will end.
Think about it: even the buckling of the road system alone would be enough to cause a radical alteration. Every trip will have to have the same preparations made for expeditions today, and they will have to acquire and ride in off-road vehicles while on the road. Throw in the electric grid failing and all the consequences of that and you can see how notions of the "end of civilization", as we know it, is not an exaggeration. To withstand that there will have to be a gradual (or perhaps abrupt) transition from what we know now into a situation similar to remote villages in Alaska, in that they will have to generate their own power (and water) since there is no electric grid available, and they will have to drive "off-road" to go anywhere.
Last edited by Patricius Maximus; 07-26-2012 at 04:35 AM..
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