Re: highway evacuations.
seems the planners forgot about simple logic. to move 1 million people in 20 hours,allowing 4 hours of the 24 for loading kids wife supplies and such ,assuming 4 to a car means ya just said GO on 250,000 cars. boom, instant gridlock. law of averages says that a certain number will fail and cause slowdowns.<br /> means ya have to have 12,500 cars per hour or 208.33 cars per minute passing a given point. with no planning its not gonna happen. even with planning its still gonna be slow. even with six lanes thats 34.7 cars a minute past a given point.<br /> they should have blocked access to most onramps and provided fuel trucks and done the evac in a rolling block type evac,. seems we see it all the time, Hugo, floyd,dennis, andrew, katrina and now Rita along with many I forgot. no one seems to learn.the national gaurd has the manpower and training to control onramp access. and with proper controls and adequate fuel supplies it should average something better than 15mph.<br /> but for everyone to just holler go and no planning on where or how is sheer stupidity and lack of forsight. I heard that almost 2 million were trying to exit the entire area with 1.2 million just from the houston area. thats a lot of automobiles hauling out.
