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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Rush hour in any major city should tell you all you need to know about the possible sucess of any "evacuation plan." And Houston had days over which to do it. Contrast a terrorist stike. "There's been a dirty bomb. Everyone leave NOW!" We can't evacuate a city. Besides what happened in NYC when there was a strike? All traffic was shut down in and out of the city.
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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.
