30 Dec
2004
30 Dec
'04
1:49 p.m.
It's a whole different scale. Honolulu might have problems, but the rest of the cities are relatively small, so you'd stand a decent chance of moving the population with a few hours' notice. You don't have to go too far in most cases to pick up sufficient altitude. And of course there's a reasonable amount of civic planning, training and drills.
But those warning sirens/stations... it seems to me that if the Pacific Coast has all of 6 hours warning (not sure how much time they would have though), there would be mass hysteria, and the coastal cities are so huge, that evacuation wouldn't reasonably happen. Cyn