East Coast put to fire

Bad image in my head tonight in this dry weather of the East Coast put to fire, natural or somehow more apocalyptic because man made. The traffic jams for the escape path and whether ditching your car and jogging on the Turnpike (or 195 or 80 if escaping west/east etc) would be the safest choice. The shrugging told-you-this-place-sucked attitude with which the typical New Jersey resident would respond as the road filled with parked cars. I picture a fat guy who looks a little like me huffing it down the side of the road, family in tow. Maybe he's wearing flippers and an inner tube, you know, just to be ready for whatever comes next.