Experts say it is a matter of time before global warming drives up sea levels the one or two metres it would take to force permanent evacuation of islands such as Tuvalu, the highest point of which is four metres above water.
Aside from providing students with an enjoyable break from class, there is no mistaking the obvious value of such evacuation drills in the event of a real disaster.
But the shelling, and earlier problems in the evacuation process, demonstrated the limits of such an approach.
Assemblyman Brodsky today gave Entergy credit for addressing the probability of a shadow evacuation but said the inclusion of such a small area was bizarre, given the fear the plant had generated throughout the New York region.
It has cost at least 16 German lives, swept away houses and cars, torn up roads, buckled railway lines and forced more than 100,000 to leave their homes, the biggest such evacuation of Germans since the second world war.
The use of unilateral craniectomy following the evacuation of a mass lesion, such as acute subdural haematoma or traumatic intracerebral haematoma, is accepted practice.
In Britain, over 1 million unaccompanied children were evacuated from cities and many high-profile psychologists and psychoanalysts including Klein, Isaacs and John Bowlby established the Cambridge evacuation survey to study the effects of such major environmental changes (B. Harris, 1995; Rose, 1999: 1999.
As well as diagnostic objectives, ultrasound guidance allows us to perform other interesting therapeutic procedures such as evacuation of liquid or semi-solid collections and placement of markers or coils for neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Urgent surgical repair includes procedures such as "evacuation of hematoma, ligation of bleeding vessels, debridement, suturing of tears in tunica albuginea, urethral stenting, and/or end-to-end urethral anastomosis" [3].
The traditional criterion refers to a limited number of weekly evacuations, although patients mostly complain of symptoms associated with difficult stool passage, such as evacuation of hard or lumpy stools or the need of excessive efforts and/or manipulation during defecation [ 2].
