Can we evacuate los angeles in 3-4 days in emergency?

[The Boston Dangler]

instant gridlock, total madness, terrible death

 

[jagec]

Let's hope not.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
To me if ever they evacuate a city they should disallow any vehicle larger then a 4 wheeler. Cars are what make such an evacuation slower. You can fit many pedal bikes and 4 wheelers / motorcycles on roads compared to cars. If everyone is going 5-10km/h steady at a safe pace it could potentially be possible to evacuate. Then again, what do you do about hospitals, or elderly people in old age homes? You wont see a grandma pulling out her pedal bike and biking away from town LOL.

Though for most people walking or biking out is feasable, especialy in a city like that where the weather is good. Where I live, it would not work. Walk a few miles and you freeze to death if not well dressed.

You seem really confused about how traffic works. If everyone was on foot, we'd still have traffic jams, and old people, women, and children would more or less get a death sentence.

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Hahaha, really? We stopped in LA when we went on a CA roadtrip vacation. We spent the entire time there on the 405, it was wonderful.

Yes 405 and 101 usually has crazy traffic

 

[esun]

If the urgency was communicated appropriately I'd say it'd be possible. You might not get every last person, but you could get damn close given the timeframe. Actually you could probably do a simple calculation based on the roads leaving LA (maybe just pick the freeways), determining an effective bandwidth for all those roads, then determining if the number of people in LA could be evacuated in the given time frame based on that bandwidth.

Population is about 4 million according to Wikipedia. If you had 3 full days, or 72 hours, you'd need to push maybe 60,000 people/hour. That seems a pretty reasonable number given the number of freeways in LA.

 

[Turin39789]

hit it with an asteroid. Then it will be evacuated

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Turin39789
hit it with an asteroid. Then it will be evacuated

Put a sealed glass bubble over it, and suck out all of the air. Then it will be evacuated.😛

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Turin39789
hit it with an asteroid. Then it will be evacuated

Put a sealed glass bubble over it, and suck out all of the air. Then it will be evacuated.😛

Take a dump in the pacific ocean then you will be evacuated.

 

[SSSnail]

You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
anyone who mattered could be gotten out, the remaining idiots would deserve to die

New Orleans?

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

Interesting, if you were told asteroid going to hit and destroy the city would you be willing to stay as either lotter or to make sure no one loots your house/busienss etc? Or would you get the hell out?

 

[shortylickens]

Its official.
We must destroy Los Angeles to end this thread.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: SSSnail
You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

Interesting, if you were told asteroid going to hit and destroy the city would you be willing to stay as either lotter or to make sure no one loots your house/busienss etc? Or would you get the hell out?

Nope, I'm certain that half will try to loot, half will stay to watch out for and the other half will get on top of the 1st Interstate building and welcome the asteroid.

 

[0roo0roo]

earthquake=no water=only those with guns with be left alive.

bye bye hollywood

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Nope. Flying in over LA at night and thinking about supply chain breakdown convinced me more than ever that I would NEVER want to live in LA. The place is a death trap - no local water sources, no local food supply, high risk major earthquake area, easily disrupted sewer and garbage service and zillions of people with a history of mass rioting.

however, if one turns to cannibalism, that place is a buffet line.

Be sure to wash and cook them thoroughly or you will get a nasty case of food poisoning, and probably a few STD's.

Can we come to where you live and hang out at the Arbys?

No, but you can find a spherical room and attempt to urinate in the corner to achieve a similar effect.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: esun
If the urgency was communicated appropriately I'd say it'd be possible. You might not get every last person, but you could get damn close given the timeframe. Actually you could probably do a simple calculation based on the roads leaving LA (maybe just pick the freeways), determining an effective bandwidth for all those roads, then determining if the number of people in LA could be evacuated in the given time frame based on that bandwidth.

Population is about 4 million according to Wikipedia. If you had 3 full days, or 72 hours, you'd need to push maybe 60,000 people/hour. That seems a pretty reasonable number given the number of freeways in LA.

4 mil in the proper city of LA.

try around 17 mil for LA county.

 

[roid450]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: SSSnail
You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

Interesting, if you were told asteroid going to hit and destroy the city would you be willing to stay as either lotter or to make sure no one loots your house/busienss etc? Or would you get the hell out?

Nope, I'm certain that 1/3 will try to loot, the other 1/3 will stay to watch out for and the other 1/3 will get on top of the 1st Interstate building and welcome the asteroid.

3 halves 😕 fixed ^^

But yes you are correct. Gangstas would deffinetely stay behind and do drugs all day long and prolly drive around doing drive-bys and raiding gun shops.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: roid450

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: SSSnail
You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

Interesting, if you were told asteroid going to hit and destroy the city would you be willing to stay as either lotter or to make sure no one loots your house/busienss etc? Or would you get the hell out?

Nope, I'm certain that 1/3 will try to loot, the other 1/3 will stay to watch out for and the other 1/3 will get on top of the 1st Interstate building and welcome the asteroid.

3 halves 😕 fixed ^^

But yes you are correct. Gangstas would deffinetely stay behind and do drugs all day long and prolly drive around doing drive-bys and raiding gun shops.

Nope, I meant what I said. You just forgot that I also got the half that are undocumented. Boy, you must be a blast at parties.

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I have a more important question. Could we successfully barricade everyone in Los Angeles for the 3-4 days until the asteroid hit?

Seriously.

 

[Dumac]

I hate Los Angeles.

 

[roid450]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: roid450

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: SSSnail
You can't evacuate LA in 3-4 days, simply because people will stay to watch for the looters, and the looters will stay to watch for vacant homes, it's a vicious circle.

Interesting, if you were told asteroid going to hit and destroy the city would you be willing to stay as either lotter or to make sure no one loots your house/busienss etc? Or would you get the hell out?

Nope, I'm certain that 1/3 will try to loot, the other 1/3 will stay to watch out for and the other 1/3 will get on top of the 1st Interstate building and welcome the asteroid.

3 halves 😕 fixed ^^

But yes you are correct. Gangstas would deffinetely stay behind and do drugs all day long and prolly drive around doing drive-bys and raiding gun shops.

Nope, I meant what I said. You just forgot that I also got the half that are undocumented. Boy, you must be a blast at parties.

😀

Originally posted by: LtPage1

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I have a more important question. Could we successfully barricade everyone in Los Angeles for the 3-4 days until the asteroid hit?

Seriously.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[pears2]

Nope. We already tried that when Hurricane Rita was heading for Houston. You have to send thousands upon thousands of gallons of gas up and down every evacuation route so that people can fill up and keep moving. Same thing with food, water, and other supplies. To open up the inbound lanes to outbound traffic, you have to send police to clear the traffic already heading inbound, and to block entrances all along the evac route to shut them down. You have to use buses and the like to round up those without vehicles to get them out. We couldn't even get all of that to work here, so LA would be much much worse. It was very strange the day the storm was to hit (but ended up essentially missing us) and the day after, driving around a basically deserted looking city. Getting up onto the freeway and driving for 10 or 15 miles without more than 1 or 2 cars being sighted along the way.

Here are some stories about what it was like: Washington Post and Newshour and Wikipedia. Here is a pic of what the traffic was like trying to get out of town.

 

[Kirby]

LA?

Hell, I wouldn't even mention that there was an asteroid.

 

[sdifox]

So no one has seen Independence Day?

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Nope. Flying in over LA at night and thinking about supply chain breakdown convinced me more than ever that I would NEVER want to live in LA. The place is a death trap - no local water sources, no local food supply, high risk major earthquake area, easily disrupted sewer and garbage service and zillions of people with a history of mass rioting.

however, if one turns to cannibalism, that place is a buffet line.

I see that your a "glass is half full" kind of guy. 🙂