Adding Evacuation Zones in Response to Hurricane
The Bloomberg administration announced on Friday that it would double to six the number of evacuation zones along New York City’s coast and expand them to include an additional 640,000 residents, saying that the new map would provide more flexibility when major storms hit.
The changes to the city’s coastal storm plan were the most visible initiative to emerge from a report on the response to Hurricane Sandy prepared at Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s request.
The report repeatedly praises city agencies and their state and federal counterparts, and acknowledges few if any significant missteps as government officials scrambled to respond to and recover from the severity of Hurricane Sandy, which killed 43 city residents and damaged thousands of homes.
“Over all, the response was very strong,” said Caswell F. Holloway, the deputy mayor for operations, who oversaw the preparation of the report with Linda I. Gibbs, deputy mayor for health and human services. He said the point was to identify ways the city could do better, not to find fault.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/nyregion/new-york-city-to-double-number-of-storm-evacuation-zones.html
