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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  9/22/2005 01:41 PM, you wrote:
>  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.

Imagine if things were bad enough that instead of sitting in their 
cars waiting for the traffic to clear up they walked away, walked 
on... just looking to stay alive.
Would it make a difference? I don't know...



Rob
becida AT comcast.net