Oopsie.
Nice try, Ventura County. But some of us could see that coming decades ago, and GTFO then, deciding it was better to be 25 years early than 5 minutes late on that idea.
But thanks for trying.
Nice try, Ventura County. But some of us could see that coming decades ago, and GTFO then, deciding it was better to be 25 years early than 5 minutes late on that idea.
But thanks for trying.
If that were an actual thing, only the first 300K or so could actually get away.
ReplyDeleteAll roads out of the LA Basin run through desert, and the gas stations on those roads are supplied from LA. On blocked highways, no fuel resupply will be coming.
Cars with full tanks will go 300 to 350 miles, then need to refuel.
Stations usually have less than 40K gallons of gas. At 20 gallons per car, each station on the affected route could refuel <2000 cars.
Everyone behing those first out will be stuck on the highway. Even if they got out of LA, where could they go? The desert Southwest is sparsely populated because of lack of water, and even assuming that towns and cities could temporarily double their population, tge exodus would likely not stop short of the line of the Missouri / Mississippi Rivers. The very definition of an apocalyptic event.
John in Indy
Bwahahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteYep. It always surprised me, when living in LA and later San Diego counties, how few actually consider the desert when considering their escape from Southern California. The desert kills the unprepared and those attempting to stream out at the last moment, by definition, are unprepared. The body count can't be comprehended. Of course, with the inevitable grid lock, most won't be able to make it to the county line.
ReplyDeleteWow! I don't have regular pay-thru-the whazoo cable anymore so I don't see the nightly news. I did stream "Panic in the Year Zero" with Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and Frankie Avalon the other night. The whole movie is based on a couple and their 2 teenagers going on a camping trip and when they get to one of the lakes in Ventura County, a nuclear bomb levels Los Angeles. It was released in 1962, and even then, everyone knew that people didn't make it out. Sheesh! Nice shots of Saddle Peak Inn and other places.
ReplyDeleteI like in a MUCH smaller county (500K).
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at the EMA, we never said the quiet part out loud: That in the event of a need to evacuate large parts or all of the county (the only scenario we could think of was a large scale hazmat event, including being downwind of a NUDET), the best we could probably do is submit our letters of resignation. And then try to get our families out before the tsunami hit.