I sat in a meeting in our capital city one day and in another life when our state’s dept. of emergency management debuted their newest hurricane evac plan for the coastal region. Using three main routes they would simply turn all lanes to westward and begin evacuating in zones upwards of 400K people. OK, I asked… where will all these people be going, exactly? I got a deer in the headlights look back and no real answer. Hey, I said… you can’t just dump 400K people out into the countryside having no real place to go! Needless to say, I was not their most popular person at that moment. But their plan, which they were patting themselves on the back for creating, would likely have resulted in what just happened in the Sierra… but more so.
