The strange "boom town" that is Deepwater Horizon

Bloomberg Businessweek story on how the Deepwater Horizon disaster births its own booming, side economy of disaster management, recovery and remediation (to include all those lawsuits). 

The dichotomy:  the same hotels and motels that should be filled with tourists are now filled with response workers.

It is a standard of the System Perturbation that the losses created by the Vertical Scenario (disaster) are oddly balanced by the stupendous economic activity triggered by the resulting Horizontal Scenario (aftermath).

I mean, look at the losses created by 9/11, and then compare that to all the economic activity triggered by Homeland Security and the War on Terror.

Makes you wonder about all those return-on-investment calculations by the terror experts (who do pretty well in the resulting Horizontal Scenarios, BTW).