Hopefully Micheal does not climb any higher.
How much warning could they have had 118 years ago? How far could they get in that time? How many people could have ridden a train out of town? How fast did trains even go?
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The old steam engines were usually run well below 40MPH due to problems with maintaining the tracks
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UCSB Science Line
What other forms of transportation did they have? Horses (and buggies)?
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If I'm reading it correctly, cities with populations over 25,000 averaged 4,396 horses per 100,000 citizens.
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One horse per 22.75 people. Stanford says you could travel 56 km (34.8 miles) per day by horse during the Roman Empire:
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
I do not imagine that attempting to wait out a hurricane in a storm shelter would work much better.
How did anyone survive?