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

On 10 Mar 2008 16:22:38 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
<cwilbur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>>>>> "DVL" == David V Loewe, <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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>    DVL> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:47:12 GMT, "Martha Adams"
>    DVL> <mhada@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>    DVL> wrote:
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>    >> A.E. vanVogt's null-A Venus makes a good counterexample here:
>    >> faced with an invasion, the people all respond rationally.  It
>    >> would never happen here because, 1) Look at the Bush people
>    >> response to Katrina -- Gaah!
>
>    DVL> Do you people HAVE to keep dredging up ****bboleths?
>
>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 don't think you understand how competent it was.

As a related aside, do you still believe gangs were roaming the
Superdome killing people?

>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.

Most of the problems of Katrina happened to people who wouldn't leave.
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 Why is it that they never seem to respect ours?"
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