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Originally posted by baltassoc
So your saying governments should just say "fuck it"?
Houston got something like 2.5 million people out of the city in about 36 hours. Sure, it doesn't mean shit if a nuclear bomb explodes, but that could significantly reduce casualties in the event of a dirty bomb (where length of exposure matters in addition to intensity).
And anyway, hurricanes are much more likely than terrorist exploding dirty bombs, especially now that Bush invaded Iraq and got rid of terrorism.
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You weren't watching. Houston could have done better. It took Houston a day to relaize it should let people drive out on both sides of the freeway. You are old enough to have gone to games at the old Oreiles (sp?) stadium aren't you? They had all lanes gone in before the game and all lanes going out after. I could have told Houston to do that from the start.
But the point is, a city's ability to get empty quickly is tied to population density and arteries. We aren't changing either.
