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 don’t 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 city’s 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 ...
Oh noes! Oh noes!
Shep has it as.. .. This hurricane could go right thru NYC ..
owwwiee for the Outer Banks and all the leaky flats in Manhattan.. pre-season nfl washed away?
Evacuate to where?...........Jersey?............
Fox blabbing guy is saying Outer Banks are gonna get 'modified'...
OH THE HUGE MANATEE!!!!!
We need the New Orleans beer-floater guy with a New York Yankees hat on him.
Having lived in/ sorta grown up in NY, when ya have a big nor easter, water piles up in Long Island Sound and you get flooding heading westward along the coasts of CT and NY.
this could be ugly.
Yellow zone bordering green here.
p.s. be a good time to be AWAY from Camp LeJeune and Fort Bragg.
Gotta fly into Harrisburg Sunday night.
Just curious, which zone are the subways in?
How long before one of the NYC council members..(all Dems) goes on air to say that he wants to see the subway system used to shelter people from the storm..
This is Series!
How long before one of the NYC council members..(all Dems) goes on air to say that he wants to see the subway system used to shelter people from the storm..
LOL
Aren’t they 50 feet underground?
THe outer Banks are gonna get clobberated for.
Which zone is the UN building in?
It looks like it will most likely lose a lot of its strength traveling NNE through New Jersey.
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