Know Your (Evacuation) Zone! As part of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), has launched a new “Know Your Zone” hurricane awareness campaign to encourage residents and visitors to find out whether they live or work in a hurricane evacuation zone. If local or state officials need to issue evacuation recommendations or orders as a tropical storm or hurricane approaches, they will do so by referring to the Hurricane Evacuation Zones (Zones A, B or C). Hurricane evacuation zones are the areas most at risk of incurring dangerous coastal flooding from the storm surge associated with an approaching tropical storm or hurricane. Storm surge, which is often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane, poses a significant threat for drowning, washing away cars, and damaging property. To learn if you live or work in an Evacuation Zone, use our interactive Hurricane Evacuation Zone finder: mass.gov/eopss/agencies/mema/hurricane-evacuation-zones.html #knowyourzone Please consider sharing and if you have family or friends in coastal areas without access to a computer, help them find their evacuation zone.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:10:15 +0000
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