It is eerie to come home and see this thread, and then your post regarding Lucifer's Hammer... At lunch today, I was in a bookstore and a book title caught my eye as if there was a strobe light next to it. It was How Things Work... The first thing that popped into my mind was a copy of that title being sealed in 4 Zip-Lock bags and then re-enforced with duct tape! (You would have to have read Lucifer's Hammer to understand this... It had to do with preserving the knowledge that man had already obtained.)
Interesting... Perhaps I should have bought it?
Regards,
Raven6
Hopefully engineering manuals are stored everywhere, duct-taped. What to do if this or any critical component goes down, and how to fix it.
We could learn from Katrina, if we wanted to, how they came back up with all local engineering, mechanical, technical, all of those people trying to recover when the City went down.
Nawlins is a ‘teachable moment’ (barf) on recovery, even as slow as it was, in the world of catastrophic events. So was Ike....micro-cosms to study.