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

On Mar 10, 5:12 am, johan.g.lar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mar 9, 3:27 pm, 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?
>
> > 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.
SNIP:
Getting a stuck car out of a traffic lane? Piece of cake. Line up men
all around it and pick the bloody thing up and get it out of the way.
We did just that, twice, once  with a delivery truck ('bread wagon')
that dropped a rear wheel into a ditch.
The second time a young GI high-centered his vehicle and 20 guys just
picked it up and set it straight.
Walt BJ