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A few years back I attended a local public meeting where someone high up in the echelon of Emergency Management addressed this issue. He said that if alarms sound, parents are not supposed to go to the schools to pick up their children. This is to avoid mass confusion and gridlock. Instead, the kids will be loaded onto school buses and taken to the locations shown on the map in the document above.
I asked the speaker how long it would take the buses to load the kids within the ten-mile zone and get them to other locations and he admitted it would take a lot of time to accomplish.
Assuming radiation is being released, the kids would sadly be exposed. But what surprised me is that many of the locations the kids would be bused to are also within a danger zone, depending on wind direction. This is because the radiation would not just stay within the ten-mile zone.
To me the decision to place the plant where it is is insane and irresponsible because of prevailing winds. Chances of anything going wrong may be slim, but I don't even want to think about what would happen in a real emergency.
There is a lot of PR surrounding nuclear plants because energy is big business and necessary.
^^^ Ridiculous, Wake County no longer provides busing unless you sign up for it and if your kid doesn't show up on the bus for "x" number of days they take away busing. My daughter has to go through this nonsense on the rare days she takes the bus home when she doesn't have a sports practice.
Then there are all the transfer students and private school students who aren't entitled to busing.
And then you are hoping that someone who makes $12/hour actually shows up to drive the bus.
^^^ Ridiculous, Wake County no longer provides busing unless you sign up for it and if your kid doesn't show up on the bus for "x" number of days they take away busing. My daughter has to go through this nonsense on the rare days she takes the bus home when she doesn't have a sports practice.
Then there are all the transfer students and private school students who aren't entitled to busing.
And then you are hoping that someone who makes $12/hour actually shows up to drive the bus.
In an emergency situation, they're not going to be concerned with which students are signed up for bussing and which aren't. ALL students will be bussed to their evac facility. Private schools (within 10 miles) will have their own emergency plan.
In an emergency situation, they're not going to be concerned with which students are signed up for bussing and which aren't. ALL students will be bussed to their evac facility. Private schools (within 10 miles) will have their own emergency plan.
Ya think? I don't. WCPSS is short buses and all those kids who normally don't ride the bus probably aren't going to get on as many are already packing them in like sardines. Hence the reason for this policy in the first place. Hopefully, we will never had to find out exactly how this goes, but the idea that every parent isn't going to flock directly to little Johnny's school because the gubmint says not to is patently ridiculous.
Ya think? I don't. WCPSS is short buses and all those kids who normally don't ride the bus probably aren't going to get on as many are already packing them in like sardines. Hence the reason for this policy in the first place. Hopefully, we will never had to find out exactly how this goes, but the idea that every parent isn't going to flock directly to little Johnny's school because the gubmint says not to is patently ridiculous.
They aren't putting them on their normal buses...they'll dispatch as many buses as they can and just load up. Only a small portion of WCPSS is within the evac zone...buses that serve dozens of other unaffected schools in the district would be called in to help.
I agree the logistics of getting drivers to report in and get the buses over there quickly isn't ideal, and every parent is going to want to rush over there to get their kids, but if you've ever seen carpool on a normal day, just imagine what it would be like in an emergency like this.
If you can get the buses there in any sort of timely manner, it's going to be much more efficient to do that with many fewer densely packed vehicles still under WCPSS control to get them out of immediate danger and then sort out which kids belong to which parents later.
Ya think? I don't. WCPSS is short buses and all those kids who normally don't ride the bus probably aren't going to get on as many are already packing them in like sardines. Hence the reason for this policy in the first place. Hopefully, we will never had to find out exactly how this goes, but the idea that every parent isn't going to flock directly to little Johnny's school because the gubmint says not to is patently ridiculous.
We're not talking about evacuating the entire county. There are enough busses for the schools within the 10 mile zone. And they aren't going to refuse to evacuate kids who don't normally ride the bus.
And if every parent flocks to little Johnny's school, they're only going to make matters worse. And it will be their own fault when they're stuck in a massive line of non-moving traffic. There has to be systems in place for emergency situations. We can't just let chaos rule.
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