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

On Mar 9, 3:27=A0pm, Matthias Warkus <War...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Matt Browne SFW schrieb:
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> > Is it possible to evacuate at least 90% of the 100 million people
> > living there?
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> Evacuating 90 million people in four weeks requires moving out three
> million all day, every day. I think this can be done, but just barely,
> with millions of personnel, and with lots of luck.
>
> Oh, and of course nobody gets to take along anything but the minimal
> carry-on luggage. Good luck enforcing that.

The figure I came up with, just back-of-the-envelope, was 20,000
people per hour per lane of traffic. That's guessing high; poorly
organized traffic might be an order of magnitude slower. So we need
between 6 and sixty lanes of traffic flowing continuously to evacuate
all those people.

Overall, I agree with your *****sment. It's possible, but it's going
to be tight, and keeping things moving in an orderly fa****on will be
essential.

Stepping back a bit, I think this is a great idea for a setting. A
panic-stricken evacuation of half a continent, and our heroes just
_have_ to get into the middle of it, and out again, because someone
left the McGuffin in Boston.

Johan Larson