With this much lead time, mandatory evacuations are very reasonable, if done in an orderly manner.
1) Direct all hospitals, nursing homes, and other care facilities, to provide rosters of those who may need evacuation assistance. Send lots of people door to door to inquire as to anyone that might need help. Set up medical hard shelters out of the disaster area with personnel and supplies for these people.
2) Organize all towing companies to position vehicles and drivers along the evacuation routes, with orders that any vehicle breakdowns be towed off the highway.
3) Direct evacuations by license plate letters (which tend to be location based), so that those most at risk leave first, and their areas are then policed by national guard.
Each subsequent location evacuates in turn.
4) Cities and counties set up phone banks to robocall everyone in the area with critical information, and button push to call for assistance.
5) Equip national guard with temporary cell phone towers that can be quickly set up in outage areas.
There is so much ignorance in your article, it is hard to begin.
1. Here in Houston, you can find flooded houses less than a quarter mile from houses that stayed dry. Please do explain how the license plate letters magically know the elevation of the house? Do they also pull rabbits from hats?
2. Your imaginary edicts of vague officials have no basis in legal authority and run afoul of real laws such as HIPPA where every name on the list would be a separate violation of patient privacy.
3. Please provide some detail on how to staff the “lots of people”... you going to skip the mandentory hiring process including the drug and background checks? You going to give a government badge and authority to trespass to any thug who wants it? The budget to pay for this comes from?
4. You begin this preparation days before the hurricane hits? Kinda like the Houston area authorities were in a panic before hurricane Katrina hit us... only Katrina took a hard right and landed in New Orleans.... the landing spot of hurricanes is not an exact science and the public is VERY unforgiving when authorities turn their lives upside down on a false alarm.
5. Robo call everyone in the area! Just dial 555-everyone! And the robocallers with that Capacity comes from? And more magic to know what language each phone owner speaks? So much better than the automated alerts on phones and TV channels that they use now.
Stick to sim-city