Evacuation?

Okay, so the lesson seems to be that if I need to evacuate my apartment, I won't be able to evacuate my apartment. I'll need to "shelter in place" or maybe shelter with friends who live close by, so I won't be alone.

I live five blocks from the Amtrak station. I wonder how the trains would be running in an emergency. Perhaps I could flee to friends in NYC or south to my parents' home.

I read someplace that some localities were urging staged evacuations, where one area leaves on this day and another area leaves on the next day. That seems like a good idea, although I don't know if it's having the desired effect. I've seen no follow up.

Really, the problem seems to be too many cars on the road. Perhaps cities should draw up plans to forbid anybody to use their cars during an emergency evacuation and and send buses into every single neighborhood to pick up people and deliver them to a place where they can board buses to take them out of the area. Then send the buses back into the neighborhoods again and again to get as many people as possible.

I don't see how you can have a timely, orderly evacuation with thousands of cars cramming the roads.

Baltimore seems so safe from large-scale emergencies that would require evacuation.

Sigh.

Russell called me yesterday to remind me that it would have been our fifteenth anniversary.

I wished him a happy anniversary, but I don't think he understood it or appreciated it. To me, I don't think there's anything wrong to continue to observe the date, even though we're not still together. We do still have a relationship, after all.

Maybe this just underscores that I'm past it and he's not. I keep reminding myself that I was essentially past it when I broke up with him, so I've got an unfair head start.

In fact, I'm intrigued by the notion of observe anniversaries for all of the relationships in my life. It would be an opportunity to celebrate each of my friendships at least once a year.

Out of touch

I'll be in the DC area this weekend, so it's unlikely that I'll be making any entries. I'm going to spend the weekend with Eric. I originally had plans to go to the Renaissance Faire with Brian, Kent and Jeff on Sunday while Eric is working, but that fell through, so I don't know what I'll be doing then.

Time to get ready and catch my train!