Part Twelve Of Why Bloomberg Really Won’t Be Running For President . . .

“A hurricane is much more likely than something, a terrible tragedy like 9/11” will come in handy for the Clinton campaign should Bloomberg run for President, which is not to say that tapping into everyone’s deepest fears about Manhattan hurricanes is not a smart move:

A set of booklets designed to prepare the city’s students for a range of natural and manmade disasters is missing one obvious crisis scenario: a terrorist attack.

The Bloomberg administration is distributing 1.3 million children’s safety guides that make no mention of the attacks of September 11, 2001, or the possibility of a future terrorist attack. The city has produced a booklet for elementary school students and another for middle school and high school students.

The city’s guide for older students depicts a range of troubles on its cover, including a heat wave, power outage, hurricane, flood, fire, and explosion. “These Things Happen Here, Too,” it says. “New York, It’s Time To Get Ready.”

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Speaking at P.S. 29 in Brooklyn yesterday to announce the new emergency preparedness campaign, Mayor Bloomberg said the city’s Office of Emergency Management, which worked to put out the booklets, should be preparing New Yorkers “for those things that are most likely.”

Referring to the photographs of six disaster scenarios on the pamphlet cover, Mr. Bloomberg said that all the situations are so likely that nearly all of them have happened during his time in office.

“A hurricane is much more likely than something, a terrible tragedy like 9/11,” he said. “When it really gets to be that scale, what you can count on is a bunch of dedicated people who have been training all the time, but you can’t plan for something like that.”

In case you were wondering, the last hurricane to hit the city was in 1938, and is generally considered to be a once-every-75-years occurrence, which isn’t to say that it’s not scary, just that Hizzoner is ridiculously (purposely?) tone deaf (hope that works out for you, Sheekey!).