My wife lost her ID when she was on vacation 2 years ago. In NC you can just go to a web page and order a replacement and they ship it to you. If you change your "Mail to" address they'll ship it to your current location, where ever that may be. Saved our bacon on that trip.
You do have to have a little lead time, of course. It won't help you when you are at the airport. The extremely helpful DMV person told me that you could just go to the airport security office and they can call the DMV for a faxed copy of the licence and let you through (probably with a little more screening).
I haven't tried that second scenario, though. It was told to me by a DMV person, not a TSA person, so it might be a little flawed.
-smarm
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