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post your evacuation routes

#1 Postby JonathanBelles » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:11 pm

I think that it is time to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season, and I havent seen evacuation routes. I know I need to this and mine is on a real map and not on Paint (stupid paint)

heres mine: Image
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#2 Postby CrazyC83 » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:09 pm

If I were you, I'd go north always unless it is pretty sure that the storm will make landfall to your north...since you have much more road to travel...
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#3 Postby Janie2006 » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:45 pm

State highways and backroads. A caveat: You'd better know those backroads and highways pretty well if you try it. I've not been in a real evacuation traffic jam yet. OTOH, I live in Mississippi and not Florida. You have to make allowances for geography.
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:03 pm

Janie2006 wrote:State highways and backroads. A caveat: You'd better know those backroads and highways pretty well if you try it. I've not been in a real evacuation traffic jam yet. OTOH, I live in Mississippi and not Florida. You have to make allowances for geography.


Believe me, those smaller highways and backroads were our saving grace during the Rita evacuation. We left four hours before the mandatory orders took effect, so we were able to leave I-45 after getting off the island, thus avoiding that well-publicized Houston parking lot. However, it was still slow....very slow. And there was still a traffic jam. But where it took us 16 hours to get 300 miles away, it took several others 36 hours because they left after the exits were closed and they had to remain on I-45 the WHOLE way. I think Houston learned a lesson from that.

Just leaving Galveston, on the other hand, was a breeze.
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#5 Postby T'Bonz » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:20 am

I'm in S. Florida. We took a trip up 27 to Lake Okeechobee partly so I could see what that rout was like. I'd like to use that as an evac route if a storm was coming in through the Atlantic, most down here have no clue about it and would sit in gridlock on I-95 or the Turnpike or even take Alligator over to the west coast.
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#6 Postby Typhoon Hunter » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:09 am

No evacuation route here in Shanghai - not really feasable with a city of 12 million. However great effort is made by the authorities to evacuate those in vulnerable coastal locations (especially in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces.)

Spare a thought for places like Hong Kong, Okinawa - evacuation is not an option. Even when I was in Taiwan with a cat 3 bearing down on the city of Hualien, life went on as normal until the winds hit 70+mph!
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#7 Postby weatherwindow » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:42 am

good morning,...i believe that most of our posters understand the geography of the keys, but here are a few eye opening stats on just how remote and exposed key west really is....most know that our one and only evac route is us 1, the overseas highway...126 miles of predominately two lane road traversing 43 bridges, three of which are 7, 2 and 1 miles long, respectively(imagine the impact of one major accident involving say, one overturned semi and a few cars, on the seven mile bridge)...just to complicate things further, there are 7 locations between key west and florida city(the mainland) that are less than six feet above mid tide and of those there are 3 that are less than four feet above the mark...the comination of the necessity of crossing exposed bridges and low stretches suseptible to early flooding require exceptionally early response to insure safe evacs...clearance times(the length of time necessary to clear the keys) approach 36 hours(absent any of the aforementioned major accidents!)......rich
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#8 Postby MomH » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:02 pm

T-Bonz you wrote "I'd like to use that as an evac route if a storm was coming in through the Atlantic".

That might be good if you are only planning to go as far as the big lake or slightly north of it. I can promise that from Lake Wales north you will be sitting in gridlock. US27, though 4 - 6 lanes in most places is also free access. Going north on it will be a bear. Not saying don't take it, just be prepared for whatever comes.
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#9 Postby MississippiHurricane » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:25 pm

Because im inland, there really is no need to evacuate. Before Katrina hit, my mom and I knew it was gonna be awful. So I filled up my van (dang glad I did: no gas and stations that had gas were packed for weeks) and hunkerd down. We cant really do much because we live in apartments. We didnt lose power until after Katrina left and it was sunny again(are power lines are underground) but the rest of the city had no power: not a single house or business. I did have batteries, bread, water,ect. We just had new shutters put on and they bent in half. There was a tree that was torn in two and part of it hit a car and blew out the windows on it. I was sitting at my window watching my van rocking hard while the winds were blowing. Oh well sorry for the off-topics. Now back to the topic already in progress :D .......
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#10 Postby micktooth » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:40 pm

This was my Katrina evacuation route:
1. Left with family 30 hrs prior to landfall to Jackson,MS :eek:
2. After seeing destruction in NO, went to Mom and Dad's house in Ft Worth,TX. Stayed for 4 wks and enrolled kids in TX schools :(
3. Returned to NO. In early Oct. Tried to return our lives to normal. After realizing that recovery would be slow and painful, decided to move. :cry:
4. Moved to Denver,CO in June. Best move we ever made. Life here is better than it ever was in NOLA! :D

PS: This is my personal evacuation route, feel free to modify it as necessary.
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#11 Postby meteorologyman » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:18 am

Here in central Fl , if whole state is under evacuation then it does not matter if you take turnpike to I-95 or if you head to I-75 both interstates will be parking lots, we tried moving east to west from 95 to 75 during 2004 numerous times, and no change on traffic. However if the whole state is not under evac YET! we head onto I-95 and move as fast as we can before it becomes a parking lot

Note: If the whole state is under evacuation, do not waste gas like we did moving back and forth between interstates trying to find a fast lane, just find the closest interstate and stick with it.

Don't let this fool you either: if you listen to the radio and they all of the sudden "lets just say" said I-75 is moving at 45mph, here are the ?'s to keep in mind
1) how many are listening to the radio?
2) How many of those will all of the sudden switch into that interstate, and because of that how long will that 45mph last?
3) since people are now driving over to I-75 not thinking of those question's I-95 may all of sudden pick up speed b/c of people transferring, andI-75 go back to a parking lot.
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#12 Postby wc is my initials » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:41 am

In Hong Kong, the really is no evacuation route. Hong Kong island has like 1 million people on it, and there is only 3 tunnels connecting it to the mainland. Even if you try to evacuate north, you couldn't bring a lot with you because you can't bring your car into China without a Chinese licence, so everybody just stays put. Luckily, Hong Kong has been spared a lot of times, the strongest hurricane/typhoon I experienced was barely cat. 1.
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#13 Postby rainydaze » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:06 am

Unfortunetly, there really is no escaping SoFla in my opinion. My escape plan is to go to a family members work office. It's on the second floor of a three story building and there's a room with no windows. That's for a 4-5. A 1-3 we will stay home.
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#14 Postby jinftl » Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:17 pm

In Broward County, FL (Fort Lauderdale & Hollywood area), the evacuation zone is limited to barrier islands for a lower category storm and as far west as about US-1 for anything else. This means most of the population does not live within these set zones.....really covers just the mile or 2 from the coast. It doesn't even reach I-95.


[web]http://www.broward.org/hurricane/pdf/2006_evacuation_map.pdf[/web]
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#15 Postby caribepr » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:55 pm

Like Hong Kong, we have no evacuation route. Unlike Hong Kong, and 7 x 3 miles as the frigate bird flies, we only have a couple thousand population, if that. Only about 40 feet from the water, my *evacuation* is to my friend's store, which is concrete, in the center of town (meaning, two short blocks from the water, in two directions). The new school is also now a designated hurricane shelter (across the street from the water...hope we never have to test it).
Growing up in Florida, I do think back roads are good roads (hard to believe there was a time when 95 and 75 didn't exist, but somehow we got around all over the place on roads that still exist & should be explored for what remains of *real* Florida..shhhh).
off-topic p.s. Though it's in the Prep forum, and elsewhere, just a note: if you haven't started stocking up on your supplies, it's time to begin now, a can, a bottle, a few batteries at a time.
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#16 Postby Jagno » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:01 pm

Closely monitor Storm2K and get out early enough and the route you take is always clear sailing. I did it for Rita and I'll do it again if/when necessary. I know this isn't a specific answer to your question but depending on whether the cane is dead-on, east or west of my immediate area determines my destiny.
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#17 Postby dolebot_Broward_NW » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:46 pm

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Primary evac with CAT3+ at 3 days out

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Backup route in case of the alley congestion, bypasses the alley, meets back up with 75 near naples

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Worst case - travel up 441 to pahokee then back around the lake on 27 to sebring then west to st pete.


I fully expect to have to use the secondary in a 4+ from the east. I've used that secondary route all the way to cape coral and see no reason why it would be a big deal, of course unless its totally jampacked.
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#18 Postby Scorpion » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:50 pm

Sorry, but I would rather not get caught up in 9 hour traffic jams in the sweltering heat. I will stay and ride it out, and if the conditions are bad afterwards then I will leave to an area that is not damaged.
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#19 Postby Jam151 » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:30 pm

Scorpion wrote:Sorry, but I would rather not get caught up in 9 hour traffic jams in the sweltering heat. I will stay and ride it out, and if the conditions are bad afterwards then I will leave to an area that is not damaged.


I don't think your escape immediately following the storm would be much easier than simply evacuating beforehand. Good luck riding out a big one if you live immediately on the coast.
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#20 Postby pojo » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:35 pm

I go where the planes go.
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