Finally Remembered!

Every time I see it, I plan to post and ask.  Something about fallout shelters and evacuations reminded me.

When ypu drive around the Middleboro rotary, at the side of route 44 west as it exits the rotary there is a big blue sign saying
Evacuation Route.” Unless I am oblivious to a degree that would make me fear for my mind, it only appeared recently.

So.  What evacuation route?  From what?

There used to be evacuation plans and such associated with the nuclear plant in Plymouth, but that’s closed…

Update:

I found a Cape Cod Times story, and it seems the route 44 signs are part of the Cape route, however discontiguous.  Which seems to be the same problem with Escape From Boston evacuation signs that end abruptly.  Still, I can see the point.

Update 2:

Apparently I was hallucinating, and somewhere in the past several years, when there was a sale of Pilgrim, and lots of fighting over renewal of its operating license for another twenty years starting in 2012, I developed the impression it had been decommissioned.  Since there are still concerns about it as of 2007, apparently that never happened.  Weird that I would “know” such a major thing with such certainty based on my reading or hearing of news reports circa 2000 to 2005, only to find what I “know” has no basis in reality.  I’m not sure it could even have been justified by anything that did happen being misheard, so I’d love to know how I got the notion lodged so firmly.

1. It’s part of the National Hurricane Evacuation plan.  Those signs are all up and down the east coast.  They don’t get used an awful lot in MA, I suppose, but there you are.

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  10/09  at  06:49 PM  from 

2. Pilgrim closed?  Huh?  I must be living under a rock or something.

   Posted by Sharon  on  10/09  at  09:59 PM  from  Middleboro, MA

3. I’d have sworn they mothballed a few years back, for good, for a combination of age (though age has generally turned out to be less important than expected to nuke plants and it’s not that old really), not the safest design, and an unusual degree of vulnerability to attack.  IIRC it had gotten to where maintenance was taking it down as often as it was running.  I can’t find, so far, anything through Google to confirm what I was so certain of being true from memory of news at the time.  Maybe I’m wrong!

   Posted by Jay Solo  on  10/09  at  11:17 PM  from  Nowhere, Man

4. Heh.  I googled it too.  Couldn’t find anything relevant, except that there were some issues surrounding renewing the license.

   Posted by Sharon  on  10/10  at  08:13 AM  from  Middleboro, MA
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