Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

homestead - [Homestead] Safety with miles

homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Homestead mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Safety with miles
  • Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:41:54 -0500

From time to time those of a survivalist mindset confront the paranoic vision of calamity-driven urbanites descending upon their well-stocked homes, demanding food and shelter. As I have long asserted, the odds are good that massive urban flights are surely destined to limited miles. This real-life example is from:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/22/D8CPG0RG8.html


Houston Residents Struggle to Get Inland
Sep 22 3:04 PM US/Eastern

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press Writer

GALVESTON, Texas

Hundreds of thousands of people across the Houston metropolitan area struggled to make their way inland in a vast, bumper-to-bumper exodus Thursday as Hurricane Rita closed in on the nation's fourth-largest city with winds howling at 150 mph.

Drivers ran out of gas in 14-hour traffic jams or looked in vain for a place to stay as hotels hundreds of miles in from the coast filled up. Others got tired of waiting in traffic and turned around and went home.

An estimated 1.8






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page