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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171210)	9/23/2005 5:05:22 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So even poor people would be able to get out, albeit in a bus instead of their SUV. But now that Scotty has (at least temporarily) left us you can't instantly beam a sufficient number of busses to Houston or build a sufficient number of rail tracks with three days left before landfall. For a proper response I would have to run simulations about the best combination of traffic speed, number of cars, number of citizens saved, just to name the most important parameters. A hurricane development simulation would have to be overlayed because it's possibly safer in a car 100 miles away from the coast than in a building close to the coast.