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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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