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Reply to "ORANGE ALERT for New York City"

Lets face it... for anyone who remembers the days after 9-11 here in NYC.. they sealed off ALL bridges and tunnels and we were all just 'sitting targets' here in Manhattan. I think - like EVERYTHING - in this country ... the media like to whip everyone up into a frenzy and its SO easy to get caught up in this particular issue .. while we as Manhattanites laughed off the Janet Jackson tit media madness, or the Sniper killer shooter fears of the south... this particular frenzy triggers our post traumatic stress syndrom ...which i do believe we all have from living here during 9-11. But I think you won't process or deal with any of it if you get yourself into a panic. There ain't nowt you can do (other than leave the country).. escape route are hopeless cos they will seal off everywhere! Now I understand why my mum is bonkers (she lived through WWII and watched planes dive bomb her street on nightly basis!!!). I am affraid deep down too, but I realize there's only so much that my fear can be channeled into anything that is practical to help the sitution.. I do think that folks should be more vigilant as it is gonna be smth stupid like a bomb in a garbage can (in the UK this happened all the time with the IRA).... We forget but folks around the world live in this kind of terror daily... (FYI - a recent count for my family in Ireland we noted that 12 of our relatives are either murdered or injured due to the conflicts).. not that this makes it all fine for Orange Alert in NYC ... but just putting it in perpective that this kind of alert can go on forever... there is no way we should live on our nerves but deal practically with it...
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