You're a lot safer than
Spiceware and I am. Houston has the Port of Houston (still only 5 - 6% of all containers are inspected), all of the oil refineries and petrochemical plants, not to mention the network of oil and natural gas pipelines. If any of them get targeted, we're in for a heap of trouble, starting with toxic clouds that could be released into the air.
St. Louis, while not to be looked down on, has less population and in general less targetable industries in comparison. However, you do have the Arch, which is a target just like the Washington Monument is, and other such symbolic structures.
Basically, if you're all scared and worried, then congratulations - that's exactly how Shrub, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove and the rest of the neocons want you to be. And don't forget to vote a straight Republican ticket this coming November; otherwise, the terrorists will have won. ;-)
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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