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

"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <87k5katjld.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> It's the closest example of what's likely to happen.  It was clear for
>> at least 48 hours that Katrina was going to hit the area.  You can
>> look up and find out what the response was, and how competent it was,
>> and extrapolate.
>>
>> I think a smoothly-running evacuation that uses all the available
>> highway lanes and rails out of the area is about the *least* likely
>> thing that will happen.
>
> Probably.   But now that FEMA has been subordinated under the Department
> of Homeland Defense, it has to be more ready than before to handle
> disasters, natural or man-made.
>

???

> The man-made part made the need to get it right so im****tant - this was
> the first and best test of our Leaders' response to 9/11.
>

There was a pretty accurate simulation of the event a couple years
earlier,
involving all levels of Federal, State and Local authority. Did ANYONE do
what they were supposed to?

Heck of a job.