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Old 09-23-2005, 10:02 AM
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While the airline thing sounds like a good idea (and maybe is), there are other factors that might have prevented that. Things like landing and takeoff slots -- but more important, in reading stories this morning, lack of airline and government (FAA & TSA) employees to handle the extra crowds and passengers.

I appears to me, from a long way away, that an awful lot of people simply waited until the last minute to make their move and got caught in the rush.

As I said somewhere earlier, the size of tanks at gas stations is finite -- they can't hold any more than they hold, and when they're gone, they're gone. In the traffic, it probably would be next to impossible to get tanker in to refill them. I guess I probably fill my tank every ten days to two weeks. When everyone does that on different days, the tanks are generally adequate. When everyone tries to fill up on the same day -- well, it just can't work.

A former boss used to say, "You can't build a church for Easter Sunday." Likewise, it seems to me, that you can't build an infrastructure to adequately handle this kind of situation. You just have to do the very best you can with what you have.

I guess that's why they call it an emergency.
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