Originally posted by NYTimes
We've seen a lot of evidence of this lately. The cascades keep coming. Cascade-prone infrastructure. Absence of coordinated response. Nonexistent contingency plans. There is a pattern of 'wake up call' followed by 'snooze button' whereby nothing is being done to remedy it. Everyone is making money. Join the party. Don't rock the boat. Regulations will strangle the economy. Free enterprise regulates itself. Etc, etc...
Remember the movie Airport? That was the past. A remake today would look like Die Hard.
Do blizzards happen on the Northeast seaboard? Yes they do. Should we have a plan in place for prolonged shutdowns of major travel hubs. Yes. Should that plan be well-practiced and coordinated with all parties involved. Yes. Should we have a big picture mentality to prevent an event that we know is inevitable from resulting in total chaos? Yes, we probably should. Now whose job is that? Does anyone even have the big picture? Or is it sort of a big scribble in progress?
At some point this rolling cascade culture is going to roll into an aviation disaster. Chaos breeds error. And I'm very tired of waiting for things to happen before anything can be done to prevent them. I'm very tired of "won't happen again". I think we all need to stop what we're doing and Google 'social contract'.
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