So, how do you evacuate 2.5 million people from a major metropolitan area in cars, trucks, or even busses?
Do the math. No, don’t bother.
Leave it to the Texans to assume that they can just get in their personal vehicle and go.
When you take 1 million plus cars they stretch in an endless four lane parking lot for over 100 miles.
Some kind of evacuation plan, eh?
And suppose you did use busses?
Lets see, 50 people per bus, 100 busses =5,000 people
1000 busses = 50,000 people,
But there were at least 100,000 poor people stranded in New Orleans.
Houston is much bigger, so how many indigent people stranded in Houston?
Isn’t it great to see Nancy Grace and Greta van Sustren congratulating Houston officials on a great effort?
Miles of Traffic as Texans Heed Order to Leave - New York Times: "Heeding days of dire warnings about Hurricane Rita, as many as 2.5 million people jammed evacuation routes on Thursday, creating colossal 100-mile-long traffic jams that left many people stranded and out of gas as the huge storm bore down on the Texas coast.
Acknowledging that 'being on the highway is a deathtrap,' Mayor Bill White asked for military help in rushing scarce fuel to stranded drivers"
Thursday, September 22, 2005
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