Evacuation Hazards
Although New Orleans residents were grateful for the relative impacts from Gustav, the victims of Governor Riley’s decision to order wholesale evacuations from the coast are less likely to be so forgiving. The danger, of course, is the predictable complacency that will be a factor in the next one.
We need more resilient systems as well as continued improvement in the models. 110 people died in the evacuation of Houston in 2005 (Rita).
Tags: engineering resistant infrastructure, evacuation, hurricane impact
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