[areafiftyone]

I don't think New Yorkers would panic if they knew about it. Look how brave New York City acted during 9/11. Don't forget the last calls the victims of 9/11 made to their loved ones. No panic - just a final sad goodbye to their loved ones. Why do people think New York City is full of cowardly people who would run away at the slightest inkling of terror? You live in New York City what do you think? :-(

[summer]

They're not cowards at all -- but if they have a chance their own lives, they'll take it! As would anyone!

[eastsider]

I spent the afternoon of 9/11 perched by my window, looking downtown at the smoke and watching the jet fighters overhead (tres kewl). More to the point, there was a steady flow of people about three to four abreadst all walking casually uptown. No sense of panic, although it was eerily quiet (except for the jet fighters). I'd expect the same if and when we get nuked.

As for evacuation plans, you can put out a dinner setting for me in your "upstate" residence, A51. : )

(BTW, there's a silver lining to my doomsday scenario -- Yankee Stadium will still be standing. Go Yanks!)

[aculeus]

I don't think New Yorkers would panic if they knew about it.

The complaint is that New York officials were not informed.

[Orangedog]

I don't think New Yorkers would panic if they knew about it. Look how brave New York City acted during 9/11. Don't forget the last calls the victims of 9/11 made to their loved ones. No panic - just a final sad goodbye to their loved ones. Why do people think New York City is full of cowardly people who would run away at the slightest inkling of terror?

Not to make lite of the sacrafice made by the people who made those last calls to their loved ones before dying, but they knew that there was no way out. There comes a certain peace from knowing that your minutes are numbered. More bluntly put, there were so many heros at the Alamo because there was no back door. Look at what happened during the little radio show that Orson Wells put on. You know, the one about aliens invading the Earth. Take that, add the fear (yes, fear. It's not a dirty word given the environment) from the 9/11 attacks and multiply it by ten kilotons. You get several million scared men, women, and children on a 14 mile long island who will do whatever it takes to get the hell out of Dodge. Human nature eventually takes over. Maybe not for some, but for enough to look like world's most vicious version of musical chairs mankind has ever seen.