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

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

>>>>>> "DVL" == David V Loewe, <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>    DVL> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:47:12 GMT, "Martha Adams"
>    DVL> <mhada@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>    DVL> wrote:

>    >> 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.

Clear that Katrina was going to hit, not clear that evacuation was the
right response.  The actual evacuation order didn't go out until less
than 24 hours before the hurricane hit, and the actual evacuation plan
seems to have been, "Uh, well, I'm leaving, you all should figure out
how to get out yourselves".

And even that was sufficient to evacuate something like eighty percent
of the city's population.  Most people *did* respond rationally, and
effectively.


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