Friday, September 23, 2005
Like a Bad Movie
Hurricanes, Massive Evacuations, Oh My!
I've always been a big fan of disaster movies. Earthquake!, the cannon of Airport movies, and of course the Towering Inferno! (Ironically, most of these movies had Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters as part of their cast...?!). Anyway, this fall has been one surreal (or all to real if you live in the Gulf region) natural disaster flick. First, just as I'm becoming used to hearing the phrase..."repopulating New Orleans.".... we get the new twist from Houston...100 mile long traffic jams.
The question here isn't if the evacuation plans are adequate, but could you ever build enough infrastructure to evacuate 2 million or so people? I don't know if you can...
I've always been a big fan of disaster movies. Earthquake!, the cannon of Airport movies, and of course the Towering Inferno! (Ironically, most of these movies had Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters as part of their cast...?!). Anyway, this fall has been one surreal (or all to real if you live in the Gulf region) natural disaster flick. First, just as I'm becoming used to hearing the phrase..."repopulating New Orleans.".... we get the new twist from Houston...100 mile long traffic jams.
The question here isn't if the evacuation plans are adequate, but could you ever build enough infrastructure to evacuate 2 million or so people? I don't know if you can...
