[Spktyr]

We're closer, we're ready, and we have the facilities to do it.

We've been planning for this for 104 years, remember?

That said, I believe that the other states are spooling up to try to deal with this. I suspect that a large number of people will be settled in other states as soon as they're ready. This is something that will take *months* if not years, and other states were not ready to deal with this on a moment's notice.

Then again, they didn't have one of their cities destroyed in 1900, either.

[sockmonkey]

Then again, they didn't have one of their cities destroyed in 1900, either.

And Texas also had Indianola destroyed. It rivaled the Port of New Orleans. My relatives all came through Indianola on the immigrant ships. I'm sure many Texans have visited the barren spot of sand where it once stood.

[McGavin999]

They have got to figure out where the employees of critical industries are and get them back to the area. Temporary housing has to be set up for the refinery workers, the shipping companies, the communication workers and utility personnel. There will be a temporary city the size of most mid-sized US cities that will spring up in the coming days.

Administrative offices for these industries can be located pretty much elsewhere (Baton Rouge etc.) but the workers will have to be back at work ASAP.