nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and that s basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means you ve got to do that right now. 2 1/2 hours left for mass transit. city employees, if you volunteered to help serve in the shelters today, we need you to report to your sites now. it is going to be very difficult to get to or from these sites, and when with people show up really will make a difference. to those city ployees who volunteered, thank you so much for doing so, but we need you to start making that trip. bring some stuff with you if you have to stay for a while, but you really are g