More problems with evacuation readiness

I say William is 2000% correct about evacuation. I also note:

1. Evacuating an entire city requires - obviously - the cooperation of all the citizens. The article William linked noted that some people in Galveston did not wait for their zone of the city to have its turn before leaving. It also turns some occupations into essential emergency services, which is probably not what the airport baggage handlers and gas station operators had in mind when they got their jobs. Further, if an evacuation is really going to go smoothly, as some seem to think it ought to, it has to be practiced. Any thoughts on how to do that?

2. Kerry told me that there was a story on NPR about the city of Beaumont, which had very prudently established contracts with bus and ambulance operators, effectively giving them a call option on umpteen buses and ambos in the event of an approaching storm and evacuation. The state of Texas commandeered Beaumont's reserved vehicles for use in Houston.