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Those don't serve as good examples since e.g. for hurricanes by the time the evacuation order is given the weather itself is causing issues for the evacuation.
by avar 8y ago
Those don't serve as good examples since e.g. for hurricanes by the time the evacuation order is given the weather itself is causing issues for the evacuation.
It would still be a logistical nightmare, but other things being equal should proceed in a more orderly fashion than a hurricane evacuation, especially since the exact time of impact would be known in advance.
- Xylakant 8y agoThey do serve as a good indicator. The primary problems that occur during evacuations are "people don't believe it will hit them" and "there's no way to move all those people." I'd also doubt that our math is good enough to precisely calculate the impact point of a meteorite more than few days in advance. Hit/no-hit probably, and which region, yes, but off by 50km? Meteorites break up on atmospheric impact, getting the precise point right is probably impossible.