Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for!

[Ed Jewett]

Coming from a background of interest in topics related to emergency management, I have crossed paths with more than a few treatises on the mechanisms of having to suddenly evacuate a a geographic space (buildings like skyscrapers or terrain, as if in a nuclear power plant event, or barrier beaches in the bulls-eye of a hurricane.) (Yes, indeed, these were studied and prepared and simulated with groups of local emergency management staffers in advance of Katrina, but the necessary funding for the final integration and close-out of the computerized simulation through LSU was yanked by the Bush admin. in favor of expenditures in Iraq.) So, if you want to establish gridlock, pull out a map, study the island of Manhattan, its bridges, tunnels, key intersections, etc., and reverse engineer an evacuation. Strategically-placed actions will force the NYPD to engineer gridlock. But watch out for the LRAD's.