Hurricane evacuation route

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A hurricane evacuation route is a highway in the United States that is a specified route for hurricane evacuation.

Along the Gulf Coast, hurricane evacuation routes lead north for up to hundreds of miles to the safest major city. Along the Atlantic Coast, routes lead west. They are marked with blue signs that point in the correct direction. During mass evacuations, these roads (and especially interstate highways) have been setup with paved crossover lanes so that both north and southbound lanes flow north and west and eastbound lanes flow west. In some cases, traffic may still be backed up, bumper-to-bumper.

[edit] States

These states primarily use signed evacuation routes:

• Texas
• Florida
• Louisiana
• Georgia
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• Mississippi
• Alabama
• New Jersey

[edit] See also

• Contraflow lane reversal

[edit] External links

• Florida Evacuation Routes
• South Carolina Evacuation Routes
• Louisiana Evacuation Routes
• North Carolina Evacuation Routes
• Virginia Evacuation Routes
• Mississippi Evacuation Routes
• Texas Evacuation Routes
• New Jersey coastal evacuation routes