And a bivvy sack and backpacking stove and food for a week and a change of clothes and synthetic long johns and a good parka and wool hat and mittens (with liners) and........

Well, I'm sure people can manage this.

Because if it really is going to get so bad that evacuations are necessary but travel conditions are so dangerous that no one can evacuate then I fear a tragedy.

The local fire department sends out trucks to evacuate people who want to go. They are doing that in Hull, MA right now.

When you consider there is a blizzard going on and the fire trucks are going to have to drive at slow speeds I don't see how they could evacuate large numbers of people, they may be able to get a few out but I don't see how they could coordinate a mass evacuation during a blizzard with limited resources. You also have to consider that a Fire Department is likely to have many emergencies to respond to during a major storm like this which is going to make evacuation even more difficult.

Now to me, that would be more frightening than the storm.

Well, that may explain those 2 huge pile ups in Maine, and Detroit yesterday.