Comments on: New Study Indicates Most Washington, D.C. Area Residents Would Be Willing To Follow Instructions To ‘Shelter In Place’ After ‘Dirty Bomb’

By: Are Americans “Seeing” And “Saying” Enough? Times Square Scare Offers Opportunity To Assess, Improve Public’s Role In Homeland Security

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:24:37 +0000

[...] Though the response was widely regarded as very successful, they were some teachable questions. Why, for example, were guests evacuated and not allowed into the Marriott Marquis hotel while the police kept the audience in the theater downstairs in the same building locked down? (Of course, many of those in Times Square were tourists, but this type of discussion would be helpful nonetheless.) The evacuation vs shelter in place is something that deserves some attention from the authorities, because it will almost definitely come up again, maybe after an actual explosion. [...]

By: “Gimme Shelter: The Need For A Contemporary Civil Defense Program”

“Gimme Shelter: The Need For A Contemporary Civil Defense Program” — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:06:20 +0000

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By: JB Haber

JB Haber — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:52:01 +0000

I live and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. It’s probably safe to say that “stay or go” decisions around here are based on the terrible traffic congestion. One popular story in my workplace took place during a bad snow storm. Our building of approximately 3K people in a dense office park decided to close mid-day and allow people go go home early. One guy tells the story that it took him 45 minutes once he got in his car to just get out of our parking lot … due to all the traffic on the main roads. He made it as far as the main road, turned right, and then just re-entered our campus at the next traffic light.