After reading this story on the terror level being raised to orange, I gave thanks that my friends and family are safe and sound at the moment. It's slightly scary to think that tragedy can befall American soil at any point, and that their goal is to kill Americans, so that no one anywhere in America feels safe. I guess what scares me the most is all the possible vectors for attack -- dirty bomb, biological warfare, crashing airplanes. I'm sure bin Laden's followers just took the California quake as a sign that Allah is with them.
Yesterday at Palos Verde Mall, while we were sitting at the tables outside, someone lit a picolo pete not 20 yards away from us. Until the picolo pete went off, no one noticed at all. I was facing that direction, and I didn't even remember seeing who lit it. What uf instead of a harmless firework, that had been an biological weapon delivery device or an explosive? The mall was relatively empty at the time -- what if it had been in a mall filled with Christmas shoppers? By the time anyone suspected it would have gone off... even worse, instead of laying it on the sidewalk, what if it had been placed in a garbage can? Anyway my point is... it can happen at any time.
Have a safe and merry christmas everyone.
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