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The science, skill – and luck – behind evacuation order calls

  • Written by Susan L. Cutter, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina
The science, skill – and luck – behind evacuation order callsA sunny day evacuation days before Hurricane Florence made landfall in North CarolinaAP Photo/Tom Copeland

More than 1 million people in the Carolinas were ordered to evacuate days before Hurricane Florence hit landfall.

Government officials order coastal evacuation even when it’s sunny at the beach with not a cloud in the sky and no hint of...

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