Devon and Cornwall will be inundated with refugees? Ifs, maybes, and conjecture

[Devonian]

Where would terrorists set off a Dirty Bomb??

My guesses would be either:

1. A Transportation Hub
2. The financial District
3. A sports Arena
4. Shopping Centre/Street
5. Tourist Attraction (Trafalgar Square??)
6. Near the Houses of Parliment

Dirty bombs does not have massive (nuclear) explosive power, conventional explosives would be used, the radiation spread is again faily limited due to the nature of the device and the type of radio active material used.

Do some research on Dirty Bombs, they are crude devices and will not be affecting large parts of the citys, it will not be like Hiroshima!!

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(25 March 2014, 13:38)Lightspeed Wrote: If Joe Soap and his family had the wherewithal to get out of the city before the general stampeed, this would show that Joe or someone in his party have some situational awareness.

Getting gridlocked at say Swindon would therefore reinforce the correctness of their decision to evacuate. It would also motivate them very strongly to keep moving away from danger.

Maybe the gridlock would force the Soaps to draw breath and re-appraise their plan, and take note of the numbers of other people with the same idea as them. Either they would adapt their plan or with no other options press on.

Its all about motivation and expectation. If they are motivated to keep putting distance between themselves and the City, and have an expectation of being able to make a go of it at their destination, they will press on.

BTW re blockading Devon. Am I right in remembering that Devon has the longest road network of any county in the UK... something like 7,500 miles worth I think? That's a lot of roads to block.

No one is saying people won't get here, of course they will, its the numbers that are being disputed and the fact the rest of the country would also be affected.

With regards to blocking roads, the M5 stops at Exeter and then is a dual carriageway onto Cornwall, the A30 is also Dual Carriageway, after that every thing else is single carriageway and the vast majority of the 7000 miles of roads are single track and are not wide enough for 2 cars to pass. We do not have the road infrastructure that exists in the South East and Midlands.

Why do you think 8 hour tailbacks are "already common" on the roads into the South West during the summer!