"It is DCPA's judgment, based on extensive research and developmental work, that crisis relocation could be highly effective - given the requisite planning and development of supporting systems and capabilities, and given about a week for moving and protecting the bulk of our population at risk. For example, while no one can issue a guarantee that the response of the population would be predominately cooperative and constructive, experience in peacetime disasters and wartime situations requiring evacuation is that most people will comply with official instructions, provided these are understandable and appear to make sense in terms of improving chances for survival. Also, planning includes provision for temporary lodging and feeding for evacuees, and for developing fallout protection in host areas. It is important to note that relocation has great lifesaving potential even if it works not perfectly but quite well. It is significant that on September 1-3, 1939 the British moved some 1.5 million women and children from London and a few other large cities in what was a crisis evacuation, for Britain did not declare war until September 3. (Also of interest are the facts that some 2 million additional persons spontaneously evacuated at their own initiative, and that this was unsuspected at the time by the British government). It is also worthy of note that in Hurricane Carla, in 1961, between half and three-quarters of a million people were evacuated from Gulf Coast cities without a single fatality or a major reported accident.13" (Chipman, CD for the 1980's, July 13, 1979, 17)