Re: Jammed
Posted by B-Lowcountry on 8/26/2011, 1:57 pm
And in Charleston during Floyd.  Thankfully Floyd turned....

http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/pubs/2002_EmergingHurricaneEvacuationIssues.pdf

and

"Some of the worst traffic jams occurred exiting Charleston, South Carolina. It took some people 16 hours to drive from Charleston to Columbia - normally less than a 2-hour drive. In 1989, when Hurricane Hugo whacked the city, Gov. Carroll Campbell had quickly ordered that all lanes of Interstate 26 be reserved for westbound traffic out of the city. But in 1999 state transportation planners decided that this exodus strategy was too disruptive and dragged their feet in repeating it - dallying 8 hours after the order came in to reverse lanes."

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0100e.asp
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