1. Your Family Evacuation Plan Get a good map and plan various evacuation routes, avoiding low-lying areas. 2. As they snaked their way along jammed evacuation routes, many residents got their first hard look at what the wildfires had wrought. 3. Between our satellite tracking, our well-paved evacuation routes and sturdy housing stock, Americans have dramatically reduced the chances of dying in hurricanes. 4. Bove predicted better tornadic forecasting will allow states more time to mark evacuation routes, prepare shelters and notify federal authorities for disaster funding. 5. A few miles south across the state border, thousands of motorists choked three highway evacuation routes out of the Myrtle Beach area by late Thursday afternoon. 6. Air pressure seals the doors so securely that some guards cannot budge them, effectively blocking primary evacuation routes to be used in the event of a fire. 7. But Georgia officials plan to erect hundreds of signs designating evacuation routes and signaling directions to emergency shelters. 8. But most areas along both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts have not upgraded evacuation routes and shelters. 9. But, after studying the problems with the doors slamming shut and sealing off evacuation routes, they have been unable to agree on a solution. 10. Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles declared a state of emergency, allowing the state to use the National Guard and lift tolls along evacuation routes. |