The measures included removing family, going to evacuation centres, remove household items, alert neighbour, put domestic animals to safety and evacuate to higher grounds among other measures.
Sirens blare to warn locals to relocate to evacuation sites.
Japan has distributed iodine tablets to evacuation centers near the nuclear plants that are leaking radiation.
Most protesters took shelter in a temple, and then were herded away to evacuation points.
Those emergency management people say that when it comes to evacuation, time is of the essence.
Officials said tens of thousands of displaced residents were moved to evacuation centers.
Whereas past classes generally stayed together during their school years, the disaster already has scattered students to evacuation centers, and many may wind up in other towns.
About 20,000 homes have been flooded in Brisbane, and several thousand people have moved to evacuation centres in Brisbane and Ipswich.
Mr. Rumana added that fewer people in Hoffman Grove meant less resources devoted to evacuation, even if it also meant fewer people on the voter rolls.
As the road became gridlocked, it took motorists five hours or longer to cover 12 miles to evacuation centers at the work camps.
The MacArthurs and their 4-year-old son lived in an underground bunker during months of bombardment before agreeing to evacuation on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's orders.
