The entire island is preparing to evacuate to more solid ground.
As Tropical Storm Isaac charges into the Gulf of Mexico, politicians have declared states of emergency and coastal residents have been urged to evacuate to safer locales.
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He was the regular babysitter while the toddlers' parents worked, and the girls were going to evacuate to Tennessee with him so they could visit with the relatives of their father, Everidge Green.
During the symposium, it showed footage broadcast at the time of the tsunami, from the moment when coverage of a session of parliament was interrupted by the announcement of the earthquake to the first tsunami warning four minutes later and calls to viewers in affected areas to evacuate to higher ground.
Now that officials project a days-long power outage, building management strongly suggests that residents evacuate to more in-tact and electrified parts of the metro area. (Other nearby residential buildings are doing the same.) The dark stairwells of the high rise, illuminated by glow sticks, hold families traipsing up and down as many as 34 flights of stairs.
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When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate.
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Some Florida counties actually required owners to evacuate prior to Hurricane Jeanne last August.
We are taking -- doing everything we can to evacuate them, to make sure they are safe.
Yoko's mother's family had to evacuate from Tokyo to Nagano, in central Japan, to avoid intensifying American air raids.
Reports said ambulances could not get to the platform for two hours to evacuate the injured to hospital or retrieve the bodies because of the masses thronging the streets and the station.
Between them, Williams and Hook held the Zulu advance at bay for a further hour, while smashing holes through another three walls to evacuate eight patients to the protection of the garrison's inner defensive ring.
The first priority was to treat the wounded and evacuate them to the nearest clinic or hospital.
When he was ordered to evacuate, he stayed behind to care for the wounded until his capture.
The survey showed that one out of eight people would refuse to evacuate, even if ordered to do so.
Many Haitians complain that the government did not do enough to prepare for the storms, did not warn people to evacuate, was not able to rescue people who were trapped and now has no plan to get people back home.
"Like other embassies, we've received a question from the authorities of North Korea if we want to evacuate the embassy 'due to an expected attack of the U.S.' We treat this question as an inappropriate element of tension-building, " said Polish foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki.
The local village "government" has announced to pack valuables, evacuate and move to the mountain.
North of Denver, 26 homes in a southern Boulder subdivision were ordered to evacuate Tuesday afternoon as firefighters work to contain a blaze that consumed 300 acres in four hours, 9news.com reported.
"There was an announcement over the loudspeaker to evacuate because of a police investigation and to take the stairwell, " said Katie Keogh, a 26-year-old employee at OppenheimerFunds.
Ms. Rifaie, who spoke by telephone, said the team would try again this week to evacuate the wounded and others who want to leave, and to bring medical supplies.
Hurricane Sandy, the Category 1 storm bearing down on the East Coast, has already forced nine states to declare states of emergency, hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes, and public transport to shut down.
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"You don't want people to evacuate 100 miles -- you want them to go 10 miles, " Mayfield says.
The team is attempting to evacuate Sir Ranulph by transporting him by skidoo to the Princess Elisabeth Station, about 70km away from his current position.
The government provided an estimated 150 vehicles to evacuate people, as private cars are not allowed to enter Mingora.
In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg chose not to evacuate the criminals in Rikers Island, according to Mother Jones.
The role of the British soldiers - initially deployed to evacuate foreigners, but not for combat - appears to be expanding as they have been seen manning roadblocks at key junctions outside Freetown.
One mayor's decision to evacuate a town centre on 31 January spread fear to the surrounding municipalities, where thousands of residents ended up being advised to sleep in their cars or in schools transformed into emergency shelters.
When they arrived, there was a fleet of school buses waiting to evacuate the center's residents whose families were unable to get there.
That is, a few times a year you may need to evacuate, every 5-10 years you may need to fix some damage to your house, and every 25-30 years your house may be destroyed.
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