Last night I watched a re-run of a CNN show "Out Of Gas," predicated on this scenario: What if a category 5 hurricane destroyed the oil refineries on the southern coasts of the USA, and the Taliban saw an opportunity to bomb the oil producing wells in Saudi, thereby making this country vulnerable to attack? No gas, and this country comes to a screeching halt.

Well, here's one better, and I hope homeland security and the CIA and the FBI and all those incompetents in Washington have thought of: Enemies taking out our electrical plants.

I can tell you from first hand experience, when Katrina took down the power lines, all normal life came to an abrupt, precipitous, sudden, rude, slamming stop. If a gas station had gas, without electricity, it couldn't be pumped. Banks, offices, stores, the water plant; everything was dead as a doornail. People were paralyzed. If you think we've become dependent on gas, HA! Try making do one day without electricity.

At night the ruined earth was silent and dark; without light pollution, stars blazed in the hot summer sky. The light from a flashlight was precious and wonderful. People who could obtain generators hooked up and could at least have fans. But we were cut off at the knees without electricity.  If an enemy really wants to harm us, cut off the power. Susil

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