• AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    We go to Cape Cod every year, and this has really hit me each time. The Cape is a good sized peninsula, but connected to the mainland by only two bridges. It’s already enough of a bottleneck to be backed up by tens of miles on summer weekends: an actual evacuation attempt would be so much worse

    Shore Traffic is bad no matter where you go, but I’ve never seen any as bad as Cape Cod

    • hotspurEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Oh yeah, I’ll bet. It hasn’t happened as far as I know, but that’s the kind of situation where things like really strong storm surge or tsunamis would be pretty rough to evacuate from. I assume there are some ferry’s, maybe the region could mobilize a personal craft flotilla for a evac rescue, like dunkirk…

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        That would be an adventure!

        • there’s a train, but summer only and might be once a day so won’t help much
        • there’s a small airport, but I Don’t know if there is any scheduled service, so won’t help much
        • yep, several ferries but might be summer, I don’t know. That would help a little if they’re running

        Yeah, I can picture hundreds of small boats