Hurricane evacuation route
- Hurricane evacuation route
A hurricane evacuation route is a highway in the United States that is a specified route for hurricane evacuation.
Along the Gulf Coast, hurricane evacuation routes lead north for up to hundreds of miles to the safest major city. Along the Atlantic Coast, routes lead west. They are marked with blue signs that point in the correct direction. During mass evacuations, these roads (and especially interstate highways) have been set up with paved crossover lanes so that both north and southbound lanes flow north and west and eastbound lanes flow west, a procedure known as contraflow. In some cases, traffic may still be backed up, bumper-to-bumper.
tates
These states primarily use signed evacuation routes:
*Texas
*Florida
*Louisiana
*Georgia
*South Carolina
*North Carolina
*Virginia
*Mississippi
*Alabama
*New Jersey
ee also
*Contraflow lane reversal
External links
* [http://redcross.tallytown.com/map/evacuation.html Florida Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.dot.state.sc.us/getting/evacuation.shtml South Carolina Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/evacinfo/stateevacrtes.htm Louisiana Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.dem.dcc.state.nc.us/hurricane/HurricaneEvacuationRoutes.pdf North Carolina Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.virginiadot.org/travel/hurricane-evac-default.asp Virginia Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.mdot.state.ms.us/cetrp/hurricane_evac_routes.pdf Mississippi Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.state.tx.us/portal/tol/en/emergency/evacuating/#maps Texas Evacuation Routes]
* [http://www.state.nj.us/njoem/plan/evacuation-routes.html New Jersey coastal evacuation routes]
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