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).