[lbo-talk] Evacuating half a million people

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Sep 5 10:28:19 PDT 2005


At 01:00 PM 9/5/2005, Chuck0 wrote:
>snitsnat wrote:
>
>>Who do you get to drive the buses?
>>Who do you spare from hurricane preparation to round up these folks?
>>Remember that you will add to the hospital load with accidents because
>>you've forced more traffic on the roads to notify people, go door to
>>door, and move back and forth between neighborhoods to staging areas.
>
>What would Captain Kirk do?
>
>Chuck

What would your dad do? :) Serious question that's come up on another list: Do they return the buses to the garage and gas up at the end of the day? I thought maybe your dad might know what the practice is in a non-hurricane prone state since we are just curious about normal conditions anyway.

I'm guessing that they don't gas them all up under hurricane conditions, primarily because (at least around here), there isn't enough gas. We are usually out of fuel --though perhaps the city/county have stores I'm unaware of. This is because the ships and truckers stop delivering b/c it's too dangerous. What we do have is quickly depleted because people who've bugged out gas up, private individuals horde, and you are supposed to gas up your vehicle beforehand if you don't evac. This is because there won't be any available after the storm -- a severe problem after Andrew.

BTW, that was a serious question yesterday, too.

k


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