Fleeing by car after disasters—a bad idea
[The Times Colonist published the following commentary by my wife, Irene. With her permission, I've included it here, with the picture and resource links that were in her original submission, plus a couple of extra links.] The Tsunami Risk Map from The City of Victoria. The safe zone is in green. Fleeing by car after disasters—a bad idea A commentary by Irene Allen, a resident of Vic West. After the traffic jams accompanying the recent Snowbirds show and David Foster concert, several letters and social media posts have expressed concerns about how people would evacuate Victoria by car in the event of a tsunami or earthquake. This assumption that everyone should jump in their car and drive away in the event of a tsunami or earthquake is not only wrong, but will likely get people killed.S A tsunami affecting Victoria due to distant, or even nearby, earthquakes is not going to be a huge wall of water wiping out large swaths of the city as you see in disaster movies. The t...