What, Me Worry?
When I got back to the apartment this afternoon, I signed on the computer and saw this new New York-specific terror warning. So I turned on the TV to see what they were saying. The local ABC station was doing a long report on why people double park in New York. So much for breaking news. (The NY Times site, by the way, was using the AP story until about 6 p.m.)

Only in the past few weeks did I realize I was thinking about terrorism in New York the way I thought about earthquakes in California. You know the Big One will hit someday, but you learn to stop worrying about it every day. But then there's a cluster of little quakes on the same fault over a couple days, and you start thinking about the status of your emergency preparedness kit, if you have spare cash on hand, gas in the car and the like.

So today's warning, along with the more general ones in the past few days and new anthrax at the World Bank, it starts to feel like a little earthquake cluster. The good thing is that I lived through enough of those quake clusters to know it doesn't always mean something big is on the horizon.
- posted by Amy @ 5/21/2002 06:02:00 PM