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Economies of Scale

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Some of the cities and states neighbouring New Orleans have warned that they are struggling to absorb the hundreds of thousands of exhausted refugees pouring in on buses, planes and trains in need of shelter, food, clothing, medical help and work. At least 220,000 of the evacuees have crossed into Texas … Some of the cities and states across the region are beginning to struggle to absorb the new arrivals [the] governor of Texas, warned on Saturday that the state was nearing its capacity to take in people. He called the migration “the largest influx of refugees in American history”.

Typhoon Matsa battered the east coast of China, forcing the government to evacuate 1.24 million people. (2005-08-06)

Almost 600,000 people were evacuated as the [Talim] typhoon struck southern China … In Zhejiang and neighboring Fujian provinces, the storm had prompted the evacuation of almost 1 million people from low-lying coastal areas (2005-09-01)

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