The report also found most coastal communities lacked evacuation plans for residents because of funding problems.
OK. I've got a evacuation plan for the coastal communities, and I'll sell it for a mere 100 dollars per community.
Get in your car.
Drive like hell.
See!! Now how hard was that?
Nah, too simple. They need a couple of bazillion dollars from Congress for permanent committees to discuss the problem permanently. Weekly fact-finding trips to Thailand, expense accounts, cocktail parties -- that's how it's done, dontcha know?
Drive like hell.
Too simple. It would never work. It's gov't. We need a 10 point plan, a blue-ribbon committee, an evacuation czar and a bunker for the mayor to hide in with no satellite phone.
In all seriousness, the megacities on the West Coast are suffocating in traffic problems today, in an evacuation you're better off running like hell than trying to drive anywhere. Local government is not prepared to organize a evacuation in these cities.