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#164195 - 01/21/09 05:32 PM Has there ever been a successful large scale evac?
scafool Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/18/08 Posts: 1534 Loc: Muskoka	Has any modern city in any country ever been evacuated? If it has ever even been attempted how did it go? _________________________ May set off to explore without any sense of direction or how to return.
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#164206 - 01/21/09 06:06 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
TeacherRO Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/11/05 Posts: 2574	Great question - lets assume 100,000 people being moved out. Galveston?
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#164214 - 01/21/09 06:36 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: TeacherRO]
comms Veteran Registered: 07/23/08 Posts: 1502 Loc: Mesa, AZ	Well New Orleans comes to mind. I suppose New York would qualify as a more 'mass exodus' than evacuation after 9/11 and also that big blackout a few years back. But those could have easily covered 100,000 people moving fast. _________________________ Don't just survive. Thrive.
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#164224 - 01/21/09 07:00 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: comms]
scafool Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/18/08 Posts: 1534 Loc: Muskoka	I am wondering about major cities, not large towns. Galveston and New Orleans are good ones to start with. Are there any more, in other countries maybe? Lets try for a million or more if we can. Edited by scafool (01/21/09 07:03 PM) _________________________ May set off to explore without any sense of direction or how to return.
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#164226 - 01/21/09 07:06 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale e [Re: scafool]
Desperado Veteran Registered: 11/01/08 Posts: 1530 Loc: DFW, Texas	The Cubans seem to have a good record, but that is evacuation at gun point of course. _________________________ I do the things that I must, and really regret, are unfortunately necessary. RIP OBG
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#164234 - 01/21/09 07:30 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
Stu I am not a P.P.o.W. Old Hand Registered: 05/16/05 Posts: 1058 Loc: Finger Lakes of NY State	Originally Posted By: scafool Has any modern city in any country ever been evacuated? If it has ever even been attempted how did it go? Dunkirk, Gallipoli, Galveston, South Houston, _________________________ Our most important survival tool is our brain, and for many, that tool is way underused! SBRaider Head Cat Herder
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#164238 - 01/21/09 07:41 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: Stu]
yelp Member Registered: 06/04/08 Posts: 172 Loc: Colorado	Naples (Italy, not Florida) being in the shadow of Vesuvius with 3.5 million people, has practiced city-wide evacs. In 2000? 2001? the entire city got "out" in three hours...got out to where, I'm not sure. Wish I had a citation for this but I just heard it from a guide. _________________________ (posting this as someone that has unintentionally done a bunch of stupid stuff in the past and will again...)
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#164241 - 01/21/09 08:00 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
Blast INTERCEPTOR Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/15/02 Posts: 3760 Loc: TX	Quote: Lets try for a million or more if we can. Hmmm, that can be arranged... -Blast _________________________ Foraging Texas Medicine Man Plant Co. DrMerriwether on YouTube Radio Call Sign: KI5BOG *As an Amazon Influencer, I may earn a sales commission on Amazon links in my posts.
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#164243 - 01/21/09 08:08 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale e [Re: Blast]
Sherpadog Unregistered	Originally Posted By: Blast Quote: Lets try for a million or more if we can. Hmmm, that can be arranged... -Blast Did you jack a few tanker cars of hand sanitizer by any chance?
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#164248 - 01/21/09 08:48 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: yelp]
scafool Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/18/08 Posts: 1534 Loc: Muskoka	Originally Posted By: yelp Naples (Italy, not Florida) being in the shadow of Vesuvius with 3.5 million people, has practiced city-wide evacs. In 2000? 2001? the entire city got "out" in three hours...got out to where, I'm not sure. Wish I had a citation for this but I just heard it from a guide. OK. Thanks for the tip about Napoli. I found an article about it. About 1/2 million people in the danger zone. They didn't try a full scale evac and the results were just a wee bit dissapointing. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,445941,00.html A more recent evac drill by the US marines there only involved 150 people. So far it does not look good for any planned evacuation of large numbers of people. _________________________ May set off to explore without any sense of direction or how to return.
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