More than a dozen counties on Florida's west coast are at least in part under mandatory evacuation orders, including Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, St. Johns and Volusia. Vol...
As evacuation orders were issued, forecasters warned of a possible 8- to 12-foot (2.4- to 3.6-meter) storm surge in Tampa Bay. That's the highest ever predicted for the region and nearly double the levels reached two weeks ago during Helene, said National Hurricane Center spokesperson Mari...
A steady stream of vehicles headed north toward the Florida Panhandle on Interstate 75, the main highway on the west side of the peninsula, as residents heeded evacuation orders. Traffic clogged the southbound lanes of the highway for miles as other residents he...
Florida residents are urged to check if they live in an evacuation zone by using a map on the Florida Division of Emergency Managementwebsite. As of Tuesday, there isa mandatory evacuation orderfor much of the Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay northwards — from Pinellas County, which includes St. P...
The wildfires had forced residents of at least 600 homes in the Florida Panhandle to evacuate, but that figure was expected to grow as new neighborhoods were placed under evacuation orders throughout the day. Two houses had already been destroyed, with 12 others damaged. ...
MORE: Florida officials give evacuation orders Hurricane Milton strengthens to Category 5 "Pinellas County is in the potential path of the storm and could experience life-threatening storm surge, localized flooding and hurricane force winds, [depending] on where the storm makes ...
We used the principles of the theory of bounded rationality to formulate research questions for understanding decision-making during uncertain times (i.e., hurricane evacuation orders). We then conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with county emergency managers in Florida to understand how th...
Evacuation orders so far include: -Sarasota County, levels A and B, manufactured communities and mobile and boat homes -Pasco County, on the north side of the Tampa Bay area, beginning at 10 a.m. for zones A and B. The order also applies to anyone living in manufactured ho...
Each of the facilities is within two miles of the coast, and they were in zones for which local officials had issued evacuation orders more than 24 hours before Ian made landfall, county and state records show. The day before the storm came ashore, officials at Fawcet...
Once there, forecasters warned the storm could bring eight to 12ft (2.4-3.6m) storm surges, leading to further possible evacuation orders being issued along the Gulf Coast. Image:The projected route of Hurricane Milton A stream of vehicles headed north on Interstate 75, the main ...