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#164195 - 01/21/09 05:32 PM Has there ever been a successful large scale evac?
scafool Offline
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Has any modern city in any country ever been evacuated?
If it has ever even been attempted how did it go?
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#164206 - 01/21/09 06:06 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
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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]
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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.
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#164224 - 01/21/09 07:00 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: comms]
scafool Offline
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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)
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#164226 - 01/21/09 07:06 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale e [Re: scafool]
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The Cubans seem to have a good record, but that is evacuation at gun point of course.
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#164234 - 01/21/09 07:30 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
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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,
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#164238 - 01/21/09 07:41 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: Stu]
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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.
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#164241 - 01/21/09 08:00 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: scafool]
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Quote:
Lets try for a million or more if we can.


Hmmm, that can be arranged... whistle

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#164243 - 01/21/09 08:08 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale e [Re: Blast]
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Originally Posted By: Blast
Quote:
Lets try for a million or more if we can.


Hmmm, that can be arranged... whistle

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#164248 - 01/21/09 08:48 PM Re: Has there ever been a successful large scale evac? [Re: yelp]
scafool Offline
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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.
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