How salacious. They wanted a catastrophe so bad that they did everything they could do to prevent one.

But my remark was somewhat salacious also. It seems to me that some people want bad things to happen so they will have something else to complain about. In doing so they miss anything positive that might happen and actually seek to nullify anything positive so as not to break the aura of gloom and doom that they project.

I am not in to gloom and doom myself.