Assignment Evacuation

Students...and anyone else who wants to play along. In light of the events that have unfolded in New Orleans, we will be preparing a mock evacuation plan for the cities of Victorville, Apple Valley, and Hesperia.

Here are the steps I want you to go through...

1. Find out how many people will need to be evacuated by government actions in the case of a major disaster.
2. Find out what resources the city has to transport people out of the city. Resources should include Transit buses, School buses, City Vehicles, Ambulances, City Vehicles, Church buses...You may be able to come up with other alternatives...if you do, explain how those will be utilized, and how operators will be provided.
3. Find locations that would be suitable for housing the evacuees, all housing needs to be more than 150 miles, but less than 400 miles from the boundries of the city.
4. Find drivers for all vehicles that will be utilized in the evacuation, and plan for how to assure that they will actually show up when called for the evacuation. Plan for a 20% failure to show rate…meaning that you must have at least 20% more drivers than needed.
5. Prepare a list of rallying points for local citizens to gather, and board transportation assets…create a security plan to assure order at the rallying points.
6. Make sure that your plan accounts for making sure all vehicles are fully fueled.
7. Prepare routes out of town, and to the designated relocation sites.
8. Prepare a list of spots where refueling can be accomplished if it is needed.

This is obviously not all of the steps that would be involved in preparing a plan, but it will provide us with an idea of the complexity of preparing for a major disaster.