They hoped that by advertising their plan they would persuade residents of the affected area, Marja, a cluster of villages in Helmand province, to head for safety, and that Taliban fighters might themselves leave.
The Woods, who live a few blocks from the beach, received a call from the sheriff's office at about 4 30 a.m., so they packed the boys, a change of clothes, their dog, Daisy, and cat, Bella, into the family minivan and headed for safety.
They then moved northeast and attempted to seek refuge with the Crow Nation; rebuffed, they headed for safety in Canada.
Once Flore was clear of the British squadron she headed for safety, reaching the batteries of Lesina shortly after her Carolina and Danaé and ahead of the limping British pursuit.
Railtrack said Mr Curley's comments underlined its own previous warnings about the state of the rail infrastructure but rejected the suggestion the system was heading for a safety breakdown.
Frightened villagers fled Mehlajat in the opening days of the operation, piling belongings and children onto tractors and heading for the comparative safety of Kandahar.
With an American attack expected, hundreds of thousands of Afghans are suddenly on the move, heading for the presumed safety of ancestral villages or crossing the border into Pakistan and Iran.
They were headed for the safety of Juba, South Sudan's capital, a sign that renewed fighting is expected.
Many headed for relative safety in Lebanon, a day after Syrian forces attacked that neighborhood with airstrikes for the first time in the civil war.
