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

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:21:57 -0500, "Joel Olson"
<joel_olson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.

Better than you seem to understand.  And not all that applicable,
actually.
-- 
"I still see her standing by the water
 Standing there lookin' out to sea
 And is she waiting there for me?
 On the beach where we used to run..."
       Jimmy Webb