I think he gotcha there, TB.

If I lived on the California coast, I might purchase the Iodide pills just to have around because, 1. If radiation did get there, by the time it got there, all the pills would be gone and I'd have to do without and 2. yes, it's unlikely; however, I've been seeing too many unlikely things happen and so erring on the side of precaution is the smart thing to do. Unless you're fond of the thought of dying from thyroid cancer.

TB, you would have been one of the ones stating unequivocally that the Titanic would not sink and berating others for even suggesting that it could. It was unsinkable, you know. It sank.

There were those who said the Twin Towers could not be brought down in the way that they were. Well, they're rubble.

The improbable happens. The impossible happens only a little less frequently.