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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I always felt a false sense of confidence in Ann Arbor, bc it handled traffic equivalent to entire popular 8X a year.
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But the one "disaster" I lived through there--2003 blackout--meant everyone around Ann Arbor was on the road too.
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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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It might be safer if the Metro wasn't entirely dysfunctional.
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