Posted on 08/25/2011 12:02:37 PM PDT by blam
MAP OF THE DAY: New York City Hurricane Evacuation Zones
Dina Spector
Aug. 25, 2011, 1:44 PM
As hurricane Irene barrels toward the east coast, thousands of residents have already been evacuated from the coastal villages off North Carolina. Now New York, New Jersey, and Delaware officials are preparing for the possibility of mass evacuations.
New York city officials are still monitoring the storm and won't make any calls until Friday afternoon at the earliest whether to evacuate areas of the city susceptible to flooding, including Battery Park City in Manhattan, Coney Island in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway in Queens.
We dont have enough information yet to make that call, Mayor Bloomberg said at a press conference in Queens this morning. The timing is a bit up in the air, as it is with all these things. Sometime on Friday, late in the day. How many depends on how severe we think the storm is going to be. "
Earlier today, the mayor called the citys elected officials and its state legislative delegation to City Hall for a briefing with police and emergency-management officials, according to Bloomberg.
If circumstances do reach worst case scenario, New York City's Office of Emergency Management has hurricane contingency plans in place. Each evacuation zone represents varying threat levels of coastal flooding:
Residents in Zone A face the highest risk of flooding from a hurricane's storm surge. Zone A includes all low-lying coastal areas and other areas that could experience storm surge in ANY hurricane that makes landfall close to New York City.
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Check out the map below: NYC Hurricane Map:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Has Bloomberg issued the mandatory NYC hurricane dress code yet, with color coded and uni-sourced slickers and galoshes, and hefty fines for non-conforming gear?
Everything else in NYC is regulated. Hard to believe they’ve overlooked this one.
Don't care who ya are, that's funny right there !
Zone C. This map gives more details. It is on Manhattan just to the west of the southern tip of the long narrow island (Roosevelt Island) in the East River.
The little bugger is gonna get wet.
Unexpected!
My daughter Boston in (0-4, Army Reserve) has been asked to join a taskforce. That’s all I know for now..,.
Great story !!! A few years ago we got brushed by a storm and the electricity was out for a couple of days. My kids went to the other side of town where they did have electricity to stay cool.
When our power came back on, I told the wife to keep the candles burning so it looked liked we had no electricity, just to get the kids whining.
Sure enough, when the the kids (teenagers) came home, every other house on the block had lights but us. We kept up story, and them in misery, for about 30 minutes til one of them opened the refrigerator and “saw the light”.
yep. Need to procure a spork-weasel anti-hurricane-drowning-suit
Much worse? Of course. But it is not like a rushing tsunami that will crash into the financial district. Just alot water where the engineer who designed everything want it to be and alot of wind.
Remember, the water itself does not do the most damage - it is the objects that the water moves around pushing into things people would rather stay in place.
It’s a good thing. The market will rally and some genius at Goldman Sachs will be introducing Hurricane futures. Bet on it.
Nope, no active volcanoes, although if you know what you're looking for you can see a lot of extinct ones.
I will say this, in the unlikely event the Yellowstone caldera exploded, we'd probably have about enough time to bend over and kiss our you know what's goodbye. :-))
Thanks for your info. Seems that subways might be used to get to higher ground, which is why I asked.
Moot point now as y’alls Mayor B. just announced that NYC’s rapid transit system will be closed at noon tomorrow.
Put your hip boots on!
Let us now how all y’all ( the “all” makes it plural ) do after Irene says goodnight.
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