A doubled evacuation constant did not improve our simulations, on the contrary the simulations with a doubled constant gave a worse fit with our observed values.
In an emergency, this building would double as an evacuation centre for the surrounding community.
In Grays Harbor County in Washington state, crews will begin building an elementary school gym this summer to double as a "vertical evacuation center" — built so that 1,000 people can flee to the roof during a tsunami, protected by a high wall.
That same year, he came up with a plan to protect the district's other students as well, by buying land outside the inundation zone and building a new K-12 campus there, which would double as a much-needed evacuation site for the entire city.
The program, which incorporates weather and other data, estimates an evacuation time of roughly double what was previously assumed.
The fire, set by an illegal campfire in the woods of Double Trouble State Park, forced the evacuation of 500 homes and closed the Garden State Parkway for hours.
Even so, the new models have caused Honolulu officials to consider doubling the size of their tsunami evacuation zones.
It more than doubled, to 9%, between 1937 and the evacuation of Dunkirk in June 1940; but it then fell until the end of the war.
She added later: "Look up and smile at the person taking your trash, who also doubles as your CPR first responder and evacuation expert.
Last month, after a double-header of wildfires put my 'hood on evacuation alert, I wrote a piece about it for the paper's op-ed section.
