@minibeardeath: There were no actual shelters. Those signs appeared on buildings with basements, whose construction was deemed sturdy enough to shelter people. Sometimes they even had some actual civil defense supplies. Boxes of canned food, water, light medical supplies, etc.

In my misguide youth, we thoguht it was hilarious to steal a chunks of sodium from the HS science lab to tape under toilet rims.

You're both very fortunate.

It's an even larger downer to be one of the people who is cleaning up the aftermath. When something like this happens, you don't get to call a contractor to come in a clean up. Who do you think picks up the pieces after an accident on a military air station? If you guess "the poor sods who work there," then you get…

You've never seen the commercials, then? The ones with the fashionable yuppie-types explaining how NYT is so awesome at keeping them apprised of things they should know to remain part of the trendy intelligentsia?

Sorry. I was just so fricking mad at this incident.

@d1zzle:

@ekap: Unfortunately, that is rapidly becoming against the law..

I guess some people will always buy into the NYT's clever marketing schemes.

@scaught78: It's because somehow, some person or org. will come through and help the human, but that poor damned dog isn't going to get another wheelchair.

@m4ximusprim3:

Someone needs to be horribly beaten and maimed.

I love this stuff. I'm a long time fan of David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers" series.

One can't argue that the video is fantastic.

@OutSouth:

@CaptainJack: Same thing in Manhattan

VOTE: "That Old Guy's Image Host"

Oh, okay. My mistake. I know that several of the musicians are pros, though I don't know if they have released CDs.

@scribethemad: You need to put down the Tom Clancy books and step back into reality.

Yeah, it's pretty and kinda cool, but can you root it and is the bootloader locked or unlocked? Those are the big questions.