Re: Atomic Train Farce

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Jim,

You make my previous point. What you criticize the movie maker 
for doing is exactly what WE do when we have emergency drills. In 
Florida, the prevailing winds generally take whatever is released 
towards the Atlantic. Yet in many scenarios, the plume is forced to 
hit whichever city is the primary "target" based on which power 
plant we're exercising. If it';s Turkey Point, the primary evacuation 
zone includes Miami .. if it's the St. Luce Plant, the primary zone 
includes Fort Pierce, Stuart or Port St. Lucie. As I already stated, 
we're as guilty as are the movie producers. 

Besides, in a movie there need not be all of the required 
meteorological accuracy included, but in an emergency drill, I say 
accuracy is a key element.

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

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the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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