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In the event that U.S. intelligence concludes a nuclear attack is imminent, Rappahannock County will be expected to shelter 6,000 to 9,000 evacuees from the Washington metropolitan area.
“Since 1976, this nation’s official civil defense plan calls for the evacuation of all major cities,” Charles Kidder, state . emergency planner, told the Rappahannock supervisors at Monday’s board meeting.
He noted that six years ago, he worked with local coordinator Jennings Hobson on a plan for peacetime natural disasters, this time around, . Kidder will work with Hobson or his replacement on a wartime disaster plan that calls for putting up 6,000 to 9,000 evacuees in the county’s schools, churches and firehalls. Fire and rescue workers, law enforcement officials, school authorities and welfare workers will be briefed on the plan once it is completed, Kidder added.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s scheme to relocate city dialers to rural areas prior to a nuclear strike is predicated on having three to seven days warning of an attack. “It requires very sophisticated intelligence,” Kidder noted.
He acknowledged that the evacuation proposal “is not a popular plan...It’s not been well received in other counties.” Kidder told the Rappahannock board that
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