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

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:09:12 -0700, John Schilling
<schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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:
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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.
>
>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.

AND ordering that evacuation was not a FEDERAL job at that time.  The
people that keep wanting to blame President Bush need to look lower
down the food chain (Mayor Ray Nagin).
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