apple

Nov 18 2012, 04:22 AM

we need a prayerful or hopeful smiley. It would be interesting to read an in depth article about how it worked.

Piano*Dad

Nov 18 2012, 08:12 AM

Not to minimize Bach's situation (and I think he knows what I mean), but TA is pretty safe. Bach's chances of getting boinked by a Fjar are probably less than yours of getting smacked with an F4 tornado. We magnify certain unusual risks while living all the time with well-known and more likely catastrophes just around the corner.

Living is Sderot is another matter. They are under the gun far more intensely.

Piano*Dad

Nov 18 2012, 02:29 PM

Mik, would you cower under your bed if you heard there was a train wreck fifty miles away? Surely the next train must be coming through your living room.

If you heard there was a killing fifty miles away (that's deliberate, more so than a train wreck!), would you sit in your locked room holding a Glock because surely the murderer was likely to bust into your house next?

I suspect not (well, I hope not!). A handful of missiles have gotten near TA. And the Iron Dome has whacked each one. The bulk of the 800 are short range rockets that can't get near TA.

You'll notice that Bach's response to the "statistics guy" post was a simple, "agree."

If I lived in Sderot, I would be really annoyed and angry. Even there the likelihood of being killed or injured is low, but the damn sirens alone would be maddening ... all night long. Life is completely disrupted. That's largely the point.