[jraven]

Ohhhhhhh, I get it! The word quietly goes out to the politicos and elites to send THEIR families back to their home states, but they don't want to get the word out to the rest of the peasants until it may be too late for them. In other words, the people in "our club of those who run your country" get advance notice to save your family members, because they matter because they are YOURS. But we'll wait a bit to formally declare a red. It doesn't matter if the rest of the public (told to use duct tape and plastic sheeting and without goverment provided bunkers) perishes and their family members don't count as much -- because their family members were not elected.
I get it. Make sure those in power get advance formal notice to save themselves and their families and THEN tell the public (doesn't matter if as many of those perish because they are not smart enough to be in our ruling club).
Makes sense to me!

[Samwise]

I'm sorry. I'm getting my threads mixed up. Garrison didn't say anything about evacutaing families--at least that I heard. His sources were telling him that the Feds were considering going to Red Alert because the intell was so intense, credible, and coming in so fast. They really couldn't process everything. Steve Buyer said that Congress was briefed on their evacuation procedures. This is what I heard yesterday, and this article seems to confirm what I heard. Frist is letting the Senate recess, so I guess Garrison was right.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Same thing as the hefty pension plan that the congress critters get for life, whereas we pee-ons keep begging them to shore up the social security system for us regular folks.