I thought this was cheery:

"All evacuation plans may not be realistic. For example, the escape plan for the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant in the United States was unfeasible. The large summer tourist community on the end of a 12-mile-long peninsula "in downwind Boothbay Harbor would face a terrifying drive up one winding little road toward the plant, where they would have to turn onto the pandemonium of U.S. 1 right next to ground zero..." A local attorney and former state senator Stanley Tupper stated that "Nothing short of a wide-scale evacuation by sea could have saved all these people."

http://www.ecologia.org/npp/evac.html