Fragile Infrastructure Meets February, 2011

Our infrastructure is far too fragile. A little February blast (okay, a record blast, but still just a snowstorm) and too much breaks. That dead-trees editions of newspapers that have never missed an edition, like our local Examiner-Enterprise or the Tulsa World, is not a survival matter, except that they could be dried out and burned for heat. Some of the lamer big-city clean-up efforts may have more to do with "labor relations" and the economy than with our abilities. The basic infrastructure, though, is terribly fragile.

Feb 7, water crisis in El Paso, Texas.

Feb 3, rolling blackouts in Galveston, Texas.

Feb 3, Mexico cancels offer to send electricity to Texas

Feb 3, New Mexico, gas and electric company shortages.

How could we be so vulnerable? Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson at Prison Planet.com opine that the winter's energy problems are exacerbated by, oh, worse, "are a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America."