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Originally Posted by bluecuracao
They could still be at level orange for all I know; we moved away in 2004. But no one was really taking it seriously by then, because after you got your stash of duct tape and plastic tarps, what were you supposed to do about it, anyway?  |
Those Orange alert were more often issued when the politics needed it. Eventually that became an open conflict between Tom Ridge and the neocons. So the neocons drove Tom Ridge out as director of Homeland Security - simply because he would not issue any more Orange alerts on phony information.