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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. Garrett M. Graff‏Verified account @vermontgmg 27 Aug 2017

      The US hasn't had functional plans to evacuate major cities since the early 1980s; problem proved too slow, too complex, too unpredictable.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 27 Aug 2017
      Replying to @vermontgmg

      I always felt a false sense of confidence in Ann Arbor, bc it handled traffic equivalent to entire popular 8X a year.

      9:38 AM - 27 Aug 2017
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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @vermontgmg

          But the one "disaster" I lived through there--2003 blackout--meant everyone around Ann Arbor was on the road too.

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        3. Garrett M. Graff‏Verified account @vermontgmg 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel

          I thought of this every major rainstorm in DC. Roads clogged under normal circumstances. We have so little leeway in our infrastructure.

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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @vermontgmg

          It might be safer if the Metro wasn't entirely dysfunctional.

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        2. Jonathan Freedman‏ @zoidumicj 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @vermontgmg

          false confidence?we may not do everything right but getting people in and out of the Big House our specialité (town lovely during games btw

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @zoidumicj @vermontgmg

          Boy was it. As I noted, if the disaster extends beyond Ann Arbor the freeways will be a bottleneck.

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        4. Jonathan Freedman‏ @zoidumicj 27 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @vermontgmg

          yes 94 wld be impassable. but if you want a disaster scenario how about a tornado descending on postgame traffic?

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