[HangnJudge]

I Thought about this after 9/11

I have a 58’ Houseboat on Norris, a local lake

Norris Dam is 265 feet high and
stretches 1,860 feet across the Clinch River
It has the largest reservoir on a
tributary of the Tennessee River.

Two undocumented Middle Eastern Aliens were
arrested there one night taking pictures
of the dam at 3 AM, caught by an alert forest ranger

It would easy enough to load the hull of our houseboat with fuel oil / urea mix, seal it, float it up to the dam, and detonate the bomb.

The resultant water wall would potentially destroy Oak Ridge, a major defense industry location.

The Security risks of recreational boats should not be taken lightly.

[daviddennis]

No question about this.

But anyone could steal your houseboat (if you were not using it at the time) and send it straight into the dam, and I doubt that transponders would do (pun intended) a dam bit of good in stopping someone who wanted to do it.

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[Dixie Yooper]

Loose lips sink ships, house boats and can destroy hydro electric dams. It’s a good thing no one ever visits this website for ideas...

[Tennessee_Bob]

Oh, don’t do that - I live in Oak Ridge, in a non-flood plain area, so I don’t think my insurance would cover it.

[listenhillary]

The Security risks of (moving vans, cube trucks,tractor trailers) recreational boats should not be taken lightly.

[Snardius]

It would easy enough to load the hull of our houseboat with fuel oil / urea mix, seal it, float it up to the dam, and detonate the bomb.

I'm no explosives expert but it seems to me that even if you could float that much fertilizer on a 58' houseboat (to say nothing of the sight of it lumbering up to the dam} the resulting explosion wouldn't damage the dam too much...unless it was built by beavers...:)

[wtc911]

I’m surprised that the Staten Island Ferry or a fully booked cruise ship leaving the harbor haven’t been taken out by a speed-boat bomb. There is no way to protect against it.

[null and void]

The Security risks of recreational boats should not be taken lightly.

No. And we should also confiscate all private vehicles.

We don't want the same sorts of car bombings that they have in Baghdad, do we? (Another one just this morning!)

[from occupied ga]

It would easy enough to load the hull of our houseboat with fuel oil / urea mix, seal it, float it up to the dam, and detonate the bomb.

you mean ammonium nitrate don't you? Urea is neither an explosive nor an oxidizer. Second if you blew up your boat boat on the top of the dam, then you'd have a loud noise and the dam might lose some guard rails - the dam would be unhurt. Blowing up a dam is a very difficult proposition becasue they are very large tough structures - this was tried during WWII and it took very special bombs and delivery systems to damage a dam.

This is just another load of alarmist crap from the government to scare the bedwetting public into giving up more freedom.

[Jason_b]

"The resultant water wall would potentially destroy Oak Ridge, a major defense industry location."

Wow. Smart move putting a defense industry location downstream from a dam.