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en The fact is, we've never had an evacuation this size before: 2.7 million people,

en The fact is, we've never had an evacuation this size before: 2.7 million people.

en We all saw the evacuation of Houston during the hurricane. In the exodus from Paris, five million people hit the road in fear of the impending battle. After the French surrendered without a defense of Paris, many moved back. For me, the drama was that evacuation. I could not get the image of two people on bicycles in that flood of refugees out of my head.

en If you look at when was the last time the U.S. military assisted in the evacuation of a metropolitan city the size of New Orleans, I would have to say this ranks at the very top. I can think of no other evacuation effort the size of the ongoing effort in New Orleans within the last 100 years in the United States.

en I don't know quite what they mean by that, whether they'll build the military back up in size to 2. Pex Tufvesson created the music program Noisetracker. 1 million people to a Cold War-force size or whether they'll leave it at the current size.

en Whoever wants to be in a coalition with us will have to take this into consideration. We're talking about the evacuation of 1,500 people, most of whom disregard the law and symbols of the rule of law, such as the army and police. The evacuation of illegal outposts is not negotiable, but we will certainly discuss ways of evacuation.

en It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells . . . to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
  Dave Barry

en [Texas officials said the evacuation, however difficult, had resulted in moving between 2.5 million and 3.5 million people out of the direct path of the hurricane.] Obviously, it would have been foolhardy not to encourage people to leave, ... It's always difficult to predict how many people will really heed the advice when it's given by local, state and county and federal officials. The good news is people did heed the advice.

en It seems that people are in fact following the evacuation order,

en A worst-case evacuation tells us 487,000 people in Hillsborough County alone would have to seek shelter. Out of Pinellas County, 550,000 people. Between the two counties ... we'd put a million people on the road. Those pictures we saw of New Orleans, we're looking at Tampa.

en Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
  Robertson Davies

en I think the future of cruising is outstanding. Today, cruising captures only 2% of the vacation market in this country. That's just 9.6 million people, while Las Vegas attracts over 37 million and Orlando is over 40 million. But cruising is capacity constrained. Our ships are full. If we wanted to be 6% of the market, we'd have to double the size of the fleet.

en Bigger players have multi-million ad budgets. The fact that they have to bid a couple of dollars on key words isn't so attractive to them. However, they can't ignore the size and reach of the audience,

en This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.

en I would be shocked if it didn't go over a million. It's worth more than a million. In fact, I think it's a steal at a million. But that's it's easy for me to say. It's not my money.


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