what city in the usa is next?

[madrchsod]

we have new york,washington dc (remember the anthrax killer), and now the complete destruction of new orleans.
add in the destroyed cities and the deaths and maiming of citizens in iraq and one may conclude that bush may rank in the top ten of tyrants in history -he`s got over 3 more years.

[rwenos]

1. LA, My Lovely

The bad guys tried to blow up LAX at the millenium, but failed. They have a history of coming back to places they failed. (Think 1993 WTC bombing.)

I live 10 miles south. My family and I fly through there 3-4 times a years.

I think about it every day.

[SoCalDem]

13. "LA" is such a geographically HUGE place, it won't happen

There is no "there" there..It's spread out for miles and miles, and actually encompasses many "cities"..

SanFrancisco is more vulnerable, actually..as is San Diego.

[rwenos]

15. Hope Yer Right, But

LAX was already a target for terrorist attack. I live in the South Bay, 10 miles south of LAX, and (unfortunately) about 8 miles from San Pedro. The two most likely terrorist targets. (Has anyone forgotten about the shipping/port exposure?)

I grew up in the Bay Area, and it's a target too, no doubt. Bridges, tunnels, high-density urban center.

The menace is always with us.

[AuntieM1957]

17. The Houston/Galveston coastline is also huge

and wide open.

When the storm of 1900 hit, areas were damaged as far inland as 100 miles.

If another Katrine type storm hits the Houston Gulf Coast region, it will has the potential to cause even greater financial and environmental damage. Also, we have a denser population.

[bananas]

2. san francisco

fema report in 2001 - most likely catastrophes: nyc terror attack, new orleans hurricane, frisco earthquake

[alittlelark]

7. I'm sure hoping not.

But I have updated all my earthquake stuff anyway.

[spooked911]

11. Yep, Bush is going for the trifecta.

[Beam Me Up]

27. This is what I think too. I live in Oakland. Could be ground zero.

I'm past worrying about it in any realistic sense.

This is madness -- we are descending in to hell on earth and most people just don't get it. What was Bagdad and Faluja is now New Orleans; what was Iraq is now LA, MS, and AL; and it is going to spread. I don't know whether it will be weeks, months or years, the desperation we are seeing there will soon be EVERYWHERE. That is what these fascists want. Insane, but that is what they want.

THEY CAN NOT CONCEIVE OF ANY WAY TO AVOID IT! They are sick, sick, people.

[timtom]

29. I agree.

I remember reading that same FEMA analysis and thinking SF will be next. And, if it happens by earthquake, wouldn't that raise some serious questions that are not popular discussion topics?

[liberaliraqvet26]

3. Detroit, Flint or Gary Ind....

they have no use for those places anymore,.

[Carni]

25. The *bush's base* types destroyed Detroit a LONG time ago

There would be no purpose for that!

[Lilyhoney]

4. Somewhere in colorado. nt

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

5. nuke plant, probably

I think we can anticipate a huge swath of destruction, as with Katrina. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but my guess is...the entire eastern seaboard.

And I'll be it will be as simple as hell, with the US once again caught totally unaware and unprepared.

[msongs]

6. the so cal earthquake - not sure even bush can cause that but

it will be an event to equal Katrina when it comes. just a matter of time. not likely to be much flooding however. and I hope people are adjusting their survival kits and updating food supplies, batteries, etc.


Msongs
Riverside CA

[tx_dem41]

8. Sheesh....

:eyes:

[leftofthedial]

9. Boston

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Las Vegas, LA or San Francisco

And my money (pun intended) is on Vegas. Fundies look upon this town as a huge den of sin, even moreso than SF I think. LA is a big, juicy target, but the loss of Vegas is really only going to hurt a few gaming corporations*.... :shrug:



*Taking into account that human life means nothing to those fucks.

[tanyev]

24. A huge den of sin they love to surreptitiously visit.

I'd say SF is much more likely. That would only get rid of those horrible gay people, don'tcha know.

[JDPriestly]

32. Did you notice that the French Quarter was nearly untouched

by the floods. God must have been watching out for it -- yet that is where the "sin" was concentrated. What irony. A right-winger told me yesterday that the people of NO were being punished for their sins. I told him that he was generalizing. I used to go to church choir events in NO.

As for the gaming organizations, they make their pay-offs to the Republicans and enjoy their protection. The "den of sin" thing is for the unwashed. The Republicans go for the money first every time. If something happened to Vegas, Bush would move heaven and earth to protect the Republican donors and gamblers there. The Mormon Church has a huge presence in the management of the gambling. Don't worry, the Republicans would take care of Las Vegas before they would worry about a California city. For Republicans, there is really only one value --- money. Religion and "sin" are just tools they use to get to people's money.

[UTUSN]

12. The First Criteria Is:---------- BLUE! n/t

[MojoXN]

14. I don't know...

That top 10 has some motherfuckin' MASS mass murderers. You got your Hitler, your Stalin, your Mao, your Pol Pot, your Kim Il-Sung, your Ho Chi Minh, your Lenin, your Mussolini, your Franco, and your Milosevic, in no particular order. I'd say that Bush still has aways to go. Maybe that's his whole goal now. He's fucked up at everything his whole life. He IS pretty good at causing death and destruction. He just might have found his niche.

What city is next? Bismarck, ND. Why? It's an obscure state capital.

MojoXN

[earth mom]

West Coast

Anywhere from L.A. to Seattle. San Diego is Red, so it's safe. The rest is blue all the way up.

Don't forget how much they hate us blue staters! :scared:

[LunaSea]

16. Wyoming

I hear they got plenty of money to deal with "terrists". They'll know what to do.

[TahitiNut]

18. Oakland, California ... highest "minority" population in ...

... the liberal SF Bay Area. It's a major port, vulnerable to explosive cargoes. Jerry Brown is the mayor - 'nuf said.

[JDPriestly]

19. You can't predict or guess.

It would be physically impossible to evacuate a city as large as Los Angeles in a meaningful period of time. You can hardly move in rush hour traffic on an ordinary day. If everyone tried to leave at once, forget it. People would be inching along.

Even so, I think that people who live in big cities should be out knocking on the doors of their neighbors and suggesting that the neighborhood organize a disaster plan so that everyone is accounted for, food and water are stored in a place where anyone can reach it in an emergency and, in particular, neighbors are checking on the elderly and on children or anyone disabled.

Beyond that, the federal government had better get on the case because it is the only entity that has the equipment, money and resources to help populations the size of our major cities. Bush took the Homeland Security money and gave it away as a form of pork to his constituencies in rural America. What a waste. It is our large cities that are particularly vulnerable. The money, all of it if necessary should have gone to the big cities including NO.

FEMA really messed this one up bad. The Republican philosophy is to blame, pure and simple. This is a situation in which more government, not less, more social services, not fewer, is needed. The pain is just starting. Remember how Chernobyl brought down the Soviet system. NO will bring down the neo-con system.

[tjdee]

20. San Francisco.

I'm feeling very histrionic this week, so if I lived in or near San Fran right now I'd be giving serious thought to leaving in the next year or two.

[TreasonousBastard]

21. Camden, NJ...

if Forrester wins the NJ Governor's election, he'll put in a direct request to the White house to remove this annoyance so he can build the biggest mall in the world right across the river from Philadelphia.

Come on, now-- isn't this getting just a little out of hand? Earthquakes, volcanoes, and really, really, bad weather are expected natural disasters and can happen any time and anywhere. Can we try to push to get the focus on properly responding to these disasters?

The present attitude in Washington and some state capitals is that the only bad things that can happen to us are terrorist attacks, and that's just not true.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

22. Washington

Majority black city. Kerry got more than 90 percent of the vote in 2004. Other attention is focused on Katrina. And since there's no congressional representation, no one for constituents to complain to, and no one in Congress will care since they won't be losing any votes.

[BlueIris]

23. I fear for Portland, even with our fighter jets.

Others at risk are Chicago and SF. Democratic strongholds. Places with diverse social and ethnic populations who don't vote neo-con.

[dansolo]

35. And Chicago is the home base for Patrick Fitzgerald

Until his indictments are announced, I hope that he has backups of all of his evidence outide of the city.

[Swamp Rat]

26. Washington DC ... Cheney has his secret government standing by.

IT is coming soon.

[Beam Me Up]

28. Could be, SR, I've thought of that. Would get rid of the (to them) usless

Congress. Get rid of all those monuments reminding people of the OLD REPUBLIC, dead as Requist's corpse. Erase our history so the throne of the New World Order can be relocated elsewhere.

[Swamp Rat]

30. EXACTLY!

edit:

Perhaps THEY will do IT on the weekend of September 24th?

[Dunvegan]

31. Blazingly Blue San Francisco...

Nice geography for a contained strike...water on three sides.

Not so nice geography for an earthquake.

I'm a San Francisco First Responder and have a full pack and chemo suit staged at my home office...hope it sits there forever and I never have to use it...except perhaps in a drill.

(Edited to say: Jerry Brown is the mayor across the bay in Oakland. Our young mayor, Gavin Newsom, however is the guy that within the first month of his administration noticed that gay people worked at City Hall making out marriage licenses for straight couples that they couldn't issue to themselves...so he went up to his office, picked up his phone, and asked his advisers, "What can I do about this?"

Next thing you know thousands of gay couples were walking around with SF marriage licenses...just like real people.

All the more remarkable because Newsom won the election from the conservatives in town...and not a liberal or gay person I happened to know voted for him. I didn't vote for him. Those numbers will be flipped absolutely in the next mayorial election. He's now my "Mayor-For-Life."

Gavin can't be too popular in DC with the neo-cons...he's brilliant...photogenic...charisamatic...and was thought to have been presidential material. Perhaps he's less liked by the Right than Jerry about now.

Gavin will right a wrong if he sees it, as soon as he sees it, and said after the weddings, "Well, that probably killed my career....")
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Tip O' the hat to mopaul for the incredible blog name. :)

[kma3346]

33. Chicago

I really worry about Chicago where the Plame grand jury, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, GOP local government scandal, etc., are located.

It's terrible that it's come to this--so many of us worrying about who is going to be next.

I also worry about the California Bay Area....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Seattle is in danger from pyroclastic flows if Mt. Rainier erupts

:scared: