Evacuation notice
At the start of this month broadcasting networks in the state of Connecticut in the US announced to people that due to a state of emergency the entire state is being evacuated.
How did this happen? They wanted to run a test of the emergency alert system and pressed a wrong button.
If it wasn’t so sad, I’d have started laughing. Oh, wait, I did…
This raises two important questions:
- Why the heck is there a button pre-wired to a message about the state being evacuated ?! Is this something common? Do they evacuate the state a lot? Do they really believe there are any likely events that would justify evacuating the whole state ASAP ?
- How
do you evacuate an entire state or country? Where would you place all
the people? Heck, how would you get them there? This is less a
logistical nightmare, and more a logistical impossibility, no?
No wonder I love America. It provides so many wonderful amusements.
February 14th, 2005 at 13:04 EET | Categories: Current Affairs |
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May 13th, 2010 at 7:05
I had a great time reading around your post as I read it extensively.