MURDER AND MAYHEM

Sometimes when everything seems to be extremely calm, calm does indeed exist. But sometimes the calm hides a percolating storm. Here in New York City, a storm has been percolating for several years. On the surface, our elected officials are busy creating new infrastructure, repairing bridges, and planning for the next thirty years as if nothing, or not much, is expected to change. Underneath this surface calm is a storm that threatens to destroy most of New York City. It is a storm of malfunctioning equipment designed to alert us to an impending earthquake. Rumor has it that New York City is due to have an earthquake at any moment, and one might think that the first priority should be, not to spend billions on new infrastructure, but rather, to spend a relatively minor amount on state-of-the-art earthquake related equipment and monitors. At present, it would take at least two years to study and implement updated and functioning earthquake-related equipment. If an earthquake were to strike unexpectedly anytime in the next two years, murder and mayhem would be the certain result.