As a result, the state slowed evacuation and stranded residents were left to drown.
One doctor worried that a patient who weighed more than three hundred pounds might slow the evacuation line; he was moved to another area to wait, rather than joining the queue.
Just days after staging the biggest workplace raid ever, not far away in Mississippi, the agency promised there would be no raids or checkpoints to slow the evacuation of the Gulf Coast.
The town owned only a handful of microbuses and other vehicles to get residents out, and as news spread of the unfolding nuclear crisis, commercial bus companies refused to travel to Namie, slowing the evacuation.
Deputy Chief Charles R. Blaich said there has been a "deafening" silence regarding the fact that on Sept. 11, firefighters could not communicate with a Police Department helicopter flying overhead, possibly slowing any evacuation efforts.
Col. Roy Wallace, the chief of the resources division in the same department, described a slow-motion evacuation and how he helped carry an Army officer out of churning smoke that "was rolling like a wave".
Half of the engineers' boats were too far west to be used (43rd Division mistakenly believing the crossing points used by the Dorsets the previous night were in British hands), slowing the evacuation process.
Increasing the viscosity of a meal with dietary fiber is another approach to relieving the symptoms of dumping syndrome by slowing gastric evacuation [ 6].
