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If you live in an evacuation zone, flood-prone area or mobile home and local officials issue an evacuation order, plan to leave your home. When is hurricane season? The Atlantic hurricane season ...
Hurricane Helene entered Florida's Big Bend region late on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 storm, eventually claiming more than 230 lives as it left a trail of devastation from Florida to Tennessee.
A Florida sheriff on Thursday admonished residents who were not heeding an evacuation order as Hurricane Helene raced toward the state, threatening to unleash what forecasters have described as an ...
As the storm turned to the north, more people were evacuated as a progressively larger area was threatened. The massive storm caused what was at the time the largest peacetime evacuation ever in the United States, with an overall number of 2.6 million people evacuating coastal areas in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. [15]
Initial forecasts of a southeastern Florida landfall resulted in the evacuation of over 1.2 million residents, including much of the Florida Keys. Despite the mandatory evacuation order, 20,000 people, including over 7,000 Key West citizens, refused to leave. Some of those who remained to ride out the storm were shrimpers, whose boats were ...
A mandatory evacuation order was issued for all Monroe County—though roughly 25% of residents stayed—and portions of 23 other counties. The large-scale evacuation strained roadways, with gridlock reported along Interstates 75, 95, and Florida's Turnpike. A total of 191,764 people sought refuge in public shelters.
More than 1 million people were under evacuation orders in at least 16 counties, and both numbers were expected to climb as Milton draws closer to a coastline still recovering from Hurricane ...
The state's top emergency management official said he's preparing for the largest evacuation since 2017's Hurricane Irma as Florida girds for yet another major Gulf hurricane only a week and a ...