re: #28 negativ

I would love to see (from the safety of my orbiting escape capsule) a city of a few million Rugged Individual-Americans try to evacuate without government “holding their hands”.

I have seen this. Hurricane Rita in Houston a month after Hurricane Katrina. Over two million people were told by the government to evacuate. However the government totally fucked it up. I remember being caught in the huge jam and over the radio the the city was saying that the freeways were “not designed” to be contraflow (heading out of town on both sides). However people just drove across the medians and starting heading North and West on the South and East bound sides. It worked just fine. Also it was the government that told everyone to get out when only the most southern portions really needed to. So trust me your vaunted government in action in a needed evacuation is not what it cracks up to be.