Re: Comet impact in the Eastern United States - Feasibility of Evacuation

Don Bruder <dakidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Matt Browne SFW <matt.h.browne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Two weeks before
>> it hits, the impact site is narrowed down to Pennsylvania; then a week
>> later it's clear the comet will hit the greater Pittsburgh area.
>
>The fireball will likely be visible in Colorado, DC, and even Maine. 
>Might even se it in Atlanta.

>The shockwave will likely level Chicago, and will almost certainly 
>destroy Detroit, just to name the two biggies, and would likely erase 
>Ohio from the map. Never mind everything else closer. The Virginias 
>would take a HUGE hit. I'd expect New York would feel it, even if the 
>damage there wasn't huge.

Look at your map plz. If it levels Chicago, it's going to at least half-
destroy Atlanta, level Knoxville, Albany, and Charlotte, and all the
skyscrapers in Manhattan will be knocked over. Wa****ngton DC is half as
far as
Chicago is from Pittsburgh, and Ottawa and Montreal aren't much farther.
(Caveat: distances judged by eye on map, not by plugging into Google
driving
directions.) Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati are also goners, as are
Richmond, Roanoake, and Philadelphia, on the 'Chicago gets leveled' scale.

>In short, regardless of evacuation attempts, I'd expect casualties in 
>the millions, and that most of the northeast corner of the US would 
>essentially cease to exist as a habitable piece of land.

At least the Civil War reenactors will finally get closure.

Dave
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