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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Can we get out of Dodge? The big U.S. cities least prepared for an evacuation REVEALED. Chicago, L.A. and Atlanta have NO PLAN for getting the carless, kids and elderly out during floods, wildfires[, riots, bombings, meteors] and storms
2022-08-30
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Detroit, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago and L.A., either no evacuation plan or keep it under wraps, study says

  • Honolulu, Colorado Springs, El Paso, San Antonio, Memphis, and Indianapolis all have weak exit strategies

  • Residents should hatch their own plans to flee during wildfires, storms or floods
    ...and should anyway. The best government efforts can at best only take into account the needs of the majority, not the special cases.
  • Motorists can usually get out, the real worry is the 25 percent without transport
    See?
    No time to charge an EV before escaping. It's not like filling a tank with gas.
  • They include the poor, elderly, unaccompanied children, homeless, tourists, and those with certain conditions, like blindness
    ...diabetes, heart disease —the list can be extended infinitely...
  • This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been quiet so far, but that could change soon
    ...or it continue to be a quiet year, hurricane-wise. The models are so poor at predicting that we’ll have to wait until afterward if we want accurate predictions.
  • The Red Cross says climate change means ‘more frequent and intense weather events'
    The Red Cross joins the rest of the Global Warming true believers in believing what is unproven, and ever more likely to be shown to be untrue. But toothpaste and toilet paper will be needed regardless the emergency, so there’s that.
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  I already got out of Dodge/New Orleans…
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-08-30 21:10  

#16  ..but save my refrigerator with 'cold cash' in the freezer first.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-30 18:24  

#15  Its Democrat policy to just have the poor Die In Place. They get more martyrs to display that way, and somehow have the press paint it as the non-Dems fault.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-08-30 18:06  

#14  I wonder if 17 years later NOLA has an evacuation plan?
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2022-08-30 15:43  

#13  Thanos smiles, DAVOS takes note.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-08-30 13:47  

#12  That's called the SOL plan.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-30 13:40  

#11  Honolulu really should have a plan for dealing with a tsunami.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-08-30 13:30  

#10  You really want to evacuate these people. Alot of what we are dealing with here in Atlanta and I'm sure other southern cities is what was evacuated out of New Orleans after Katrina. Those people and their offspring.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-30 10:16  

#9  Transporting those without means out of the disaster area? Now what could they use to move them?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-30 07:50  

#8  We May Soon See How Ready We Be:

US braces for a battering by THREE potential hurricanes in September - including one that could spoil Labor Day for millions - after boiling August which saw no named storms for only the third time in 60 years
Posted by: Clem Sproing9693   2022-08-30 07:13  

#7  
#6 I wonder if electric suppliers to EVs will be accused of price gauging like the airlines and oil companies whenever there's an "emergency" declared by the [federal] government (whether the emergency actually occurs or not).
Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-08-30 04:27

...And along the same lines, can you imagine the uproar when we have hundreds dead because they couldn't get their EVs charged in the first place to get out of town?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-08-30 07:02  

#6  I wonder if electric suppliers to EVs will be accused of price gauging like the airlines and oil companies whenever there's an "emergency" declared by the [federal] government (whether the emergency actually occurs or not).
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-08-30 04:27  

#5  This is a good example of the media stoking panic in order to keep people in a constant, low-level feeling of stress and danger.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342   2022-08-30 02:10  

#4  Potable water, dried food and some way to cook it. I have over a month's supply of canned good and dried goods. Start from there...
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-30 01:31  

#3  Shelter in place. "Evacuation" defeats the ultimate goal of urban clustering.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-30 01:18  

#2  No worries. President Biden will send Kamala Harris to coordinate the evacuation and care of the careless, kids, and elderly....

(/sarc)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-08-30 01:07  

#1  Those cities that have defunded their police are really going to regret that decision if a serious emergency occurs.
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-30 00:08  

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