The Next Houston
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/whats-the-next-houston/538200
The last time a major hurricane struck #Miami directly, in 1926, it left almost 400 people dead, making it one of the 10 deadliest hurricanes on the record books in the United States. Yet that storm ravaged a sleepy, relatively small resort town of just 100,000. Today, the Miami metropolitan area has more than 6 million residents.
[...] The scariest scenario is Miami. While the city is practically synonymous with storms—just ask the University of Miami—it has escaped a direct hit for 91 years, and with it the massive storm surge that might deal irreparable damage.
“It won’t survive,” Craig Fugate, the former top emergency manager for both the federal government and the state of Florida, said in 2014.
Miami-Dade planning first major evacuation in 12 years ahead of Hurricane Irma
▻http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171438137.html
The planned instructions to flee the county’s A and B evacuation zones [...] represent the most dramatic example of Miami-Dade’s efforts to clear out in advance of a hurricane that reached Category 5 status on Tuesday. Miami-Dade’s schools chief canceled classes Thursday and Friday, and most governments and colleges announced similar shutdown plans for an already shortened holiday week.
[...] About 420,000 people live in the A and B zones, according to county statistics. Miami-Dade last ordered those evacuated ahead of Hurricane Wilma in 2005.