Hurricane evacuation

Due to the potential health and safety risks, authorities in some areas should give evacuation their meaningful consideration.

Hurricane evacuation can be vital to individual safety in some circumstances, including the following:[1] Officials advise that people who are not evacuating should carefully monitor severe weather updates provided by emergency broadcasting services, since the direction and potential danger of a hurricane may change suddenly.

[3] Many buses and coaches in New Orleans can change their destination boards to "EVACUATION" in times of a hurricane, effectively doubling as ambulances.

Along the Gulf Coast, hurricane evacuation routes lead north and west for up to hundreds of miles to the safest major city.

Every U.S. state bordering a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean primarily uses signed evacuation routes, with the exception of Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Hurricanes have a longer warning time than most disasters, but details of strength and track are only educated guesses.

[1] Despite mandatory evacuation orders, many people did not leave New Orleans, as Hurricane Katrina approached.

[8][9] During Hurricane Helene, the sheriff of Taylor County, Florida, urged residents who chose not to evacuate to write their name, birthday, and important information on their arm or leg with a permanent marker for identification purposes.