Almost certainly. Giant monsters generally arise in the ocean and head for Manhattan. They can really only lay waste to one borough at a time; if there were a New York kaiju incident they would only have to evacuate Manhattan and/or Staten Island depending on the direction the monster came in from. The people of Staten Island could be evacuated into New Jersey with relative ease, as they have the Goethals Bridge, the Outerbridge Crossing, and the Bayonne Bridge to use. Brooklyn would be a bit more difficult as there's only the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge and that's the longest suspension bridge in the States. Manhattan is connected to all the other boroughs save Staten Island by bridges, and has ferries to boot- but that's a matter of volume of population to move. It would be simplest to dump as much of the island's population as possible into the Bronx and New Jersey, shunting the ones on the Upper East Side into Queens and the Lower East Side and Wall Street and points south into Brooklyn. Those boroughs wouldn't have to be evacuated, though.
Massive flooding, on the other hand, would hit all five boroughs. Queens and Brooklyn would probably evacuate to further out on Long Island by highway and to a lesser degree by bus and train. It should be noted as well that New York City's two international airports are located in the borough of Queens, so JFK and LaGuardia would likely become evacuation centers in the event of something truly monstrous. Brooklyn could be problematic given the sheer size of its population (if it ever seceded from NYC it would displace Houston as the fourth largest city in the US). The Bronx is the only borough on the mainland of the US but there are river issues and rain and the like to contend with; if the whole city had to be evacuated there are multiple land routes out of the Bronx. Given that anything big enough to require all of New York to evacuate would almost certainly require several riverside New Jersey cities to empty, too, you're looking at the mother of all traffic nightmares.
A meltdown at the nearest nuclear reactor to the city- I believe that's Indian Point- would mandate that evacuees head south as fast as possible as I believe the plume from the nuke plant would make life very difficult on Long Island (though I have not seen the maps lately and am probably wrong).
Brooklyn alone would have to be evacuated in the event of someone successfully summoning Dread Cthulhu, as it's generally accepted that he could be whistled out of the waters off Coney Island if the stars were right. Best thing to do there: push everyone north, through Queens, and get them into the Bronx, then to Westchester. When Big C comes to town you want away from the water.
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Date: 2005-09-22 05:53 pm (UTC)Massive flooding, on the other hand, would hit all five boroughs. Queens and Brooklyn would probably evacuate to further out on Long Island by highway and to a lesser degree by bus and train. It should be noted as well that New York City's two international airports are located in the borough of Queens, so JFK and LaGuardia would likely become evacuation centers in the event of something truly monstrous. Brooklyn could be problematic given the sheer size of its population (if it ever seceded from NYC it would displace Houston as the fourth largest city in the US). The Bronx is the only borough on the mainland of the US but there are river issues and rain and the like to contend with; if the whole city had to be evacuated there are multiple land routes out of the Bronx. Given that anything big enough to require all of New York to evacuate would almost certainly require several riverside New Jersey cities to empty, too, you're looking at the mother of all traffic nightmares.
A meltdown at the nearest nuclear reactor to the city- I believe that's Indian Point- would mandate that evacuees head south as fast as possible as I believe the plume from the nuke plant would make life very difficult on Long Island (though I have not seen the maps lately and am probably wrong).
Brooklyn alone would have to be evacuated in the event of someone successfully summoning Dread Cthulhu, as it's generally accepted that he could be whistled out of the waters off Coney Island if the stars were right. Best thing to do there: push everyone north, through Queens, and get them into the Bronx, then to Westchester. When Big C comes to town you want away from the water.