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To: combjelly who wrote (376633)	4/6/2008 2:42:18 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577887

Galveston is one place at extreme risk. There are 3 ways off island. Galveston does have a problem. The road at San Luis Pass is small and takes you to Surfside which is even worse, then to Lake Jackson, which lacks any infrastructure at all. I45 can handle a lot of traffic, however. But to be clear, the problem at Galveston is minuscule compared with trying to evacuate NOLA. In the case of NOLA, all major highways out of the metro area are elevated over swamplands, with extremely limited entrances/exits (you drive many, many miles without seeing anything remotely like dry land, and certainly with no ramps -- basically, two lane bridges extending for miles with no gas stations or other emergency facilities). Of course, Galveston has a tiny population compared with NOLA. "It just can't happen, and if you tried, 10,000's would be on the road in gridlock as the storm struck." The evacuation in NOLA was reasonably successful under the circumstances. But the point is you can insist on, but never achieve, 100% evacuation. Nagin was not prepared for this simple truth. But he was well prepared to pass the buck to FEMA.