Storm planners reflect on strategies for busy hurricane season

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Property

In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to stay in place might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck. The strategies were different but the results largely the same: Both cities avoided repeating disastrous evacuations that cost lives during the deadly 2005 hurricane season.

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