NYC Unprepared for 'Day After' WMD Attack

Despite the real threat of a terror attack using weapons of mass destruction,the New York City metropolitan area is woefully unprepared for such a horrendous calamity,a NewsMax investigation finds.Not only are outlying
areas,where city residents would likely seek refuge in the event of an evacuation,ill prepared for the snarl of traffic that would result,but some localities do not even have a contingency plan for dealing with the problems.Yet there is no doubt that al-Qaida and perhaps other terrorist organizations are seeking to acquire and detonate a nuclear weapon or radiation-spewing "dirty bomb" in America's biggest city.FBI Director Robert S. Mueller told NewsMax in May that al-Qaida's paramount goal was to detonate a nuclear device that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans,and he warned that New York would be the likely target.NewsMax contacted officials and emergency personnel from three nearby counties and asked if New York City has been in touch with them to coordinate a potential evacuation.The answers were shocking.In upstate Orange County,Town of Deerpark Supervisor Mark House said:"No.There's been no contact at all.That's a big oops.The only correspondence we've had with the City of New York is with regards to the Neversink Dam."In Goshen,Police Chief James Watt said:"There's never been any direct contact,but it's something that's always been under consideration on our end."
He added:"Our community would be affected,just because we have a hospital.And on 9/11 our hospital went to emergency alert preparing to be overrun with casualties."Nearby in Monroe, Supervisor Sandy Leonard told NewsMax that New York City hasn't been in touch with her personally.But she said that no matter what contacts are made and what planning is done,"You will have a disaster on your hands.You are never going to be able to evacuate New York City and anybody that thinks that you can is crazy."Supervisor Gregory Helsmoortel of Saugerties in Ulster County said the influx of city people has been mentioned at some local meetings."But nothing has been done to prepare specifically for that."
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