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.
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