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[Wrex]

Slow zombies would trigger mass evacuation. I Think.

[TheBronzePickle]

A well-orchestrated and publicized nuclear (or any WMD, really, but mostly nuclear) threat against a city could probably get everyone moving out, of course you'd have a lot of NEST teams combing through everything. Making a credible-looking WMD threat is not that easy, though.

[Loud Whispers]

Chemical waste spillage, obnoxiously slow rising flood...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Nothing. Even a known threat which assures certain death will probably end up with 5% of the population staying behind. People are stubborn like that.

[Karlito]

Godzilla?

[i2amroy]

Nothing. Even a known threat which assures certain death will probably end up with 5% of the population staying behind. People are stubborn like that.

Pretty much this. You will always have some percentage that decides they would rather stay with their belongings and wait rather then flee, or decides to stay and help for those who are infected, or is just too busy looting everything left instead of leaving.

Really the only guaranteed way to remove all people from the city would be if the disaster itself removed them, such as aliens beaming everyone up overnight or something like that. But in any city of decent size there isn't really any way to get everyone to flee willingly, regardless of what you do.

[Zangi]

Slow zombies would trigger mass evacuation. I Think.

Seems more likely that containment would happen first, to stop the chance of zombie 'infection' spreading.  That is after figuring that there is really a zombie outbreak happening in the first place...

[kaijyuu]

If there was a slow moving wall of flames and death, some people would probably jump in it thinking it's a portal to the land of the gumdrop king or something.

[mainiac]

Satellite launch capability is one of the NASA programs that hasn't been gutted, due in part to the military's need for satellite surveillance.

Weather satellites are specialized instruments and they have their own launch costs irrespective of our technical capability.  NASA ain't exactly rolling in the funds for an aggressive launch schedule our next weather satellite launch isn't for another four years.  The Romney budget calls for an immediate 5% reduction on all non military non entitlement spending (which includes NASA) which ramps up to a 20% reduction by the end of his term.  That's just the first four years and NASA's budget continues to get whittled away from there.  Under this path out weather prediction abilities will start to decline as the weather satellite network starts to decay.

[DrPoo]

NASA shouldnt be cut on. Space is the final and most important frontier of history. It WOULD be nice if we had somewhere to flee to in case of total overpopulation.

[Skyrunner]

Nasa needs a raise, not a cut. :<

[mainiac]

I can't believe I'm the one doing this but we are starting to stray from the topic here.  If you want to discuss whether the NASA cuts could lead to fast city evacuations discuss it here but otherwise we are getting off topic.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm thinking aliens would be one of the fastest ways to make a city evacuate. Ship lands in the middle, tripods start coming out...

"We are the great and powerful tripod people! Bow down and place your pathetic earth cameras atop us, humans!"

[mainiac]

"We are the great and powerful tripod people! Bow down and place your pathetic earth cameras atop us, humans!"

QFTW

[RedKing]

Nothing. Even a known threat which assures certain death will probably end up with 5% of the population staying behind. People are stubborn like that.

Always amazes me there's people who stay on Ocracoke and Hatteras when a hurricane is coming.
(For those not familiar, these are two of North Carolina's barrier islands -- basically overgrown sandbars that are 50 miles out in the ocean. With houses on them. And at least a handful of grizzled old coots who refuse to evacuate because their fathers never evacuated, and their fathers' fathers never evacuated, and so forth.)