ML20099J473

Applicant Exhibit A-144,consisting of Undated Pages 31,32 & 33 of Unidentified Rept Re Public Survey of Evacuation Warnings

ML20099J473
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Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	05/22/1984
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r cSnt Ettempted in some Type of Warning An effort was made to determine respondents' perceptions of )

Who Mede Attempts the nature of the warning they received. As already noted, the Weath- i

the Percentage That er Bureau repeatedly advised people in exposed areas to evacuate.

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Only in Cameron Parish, however, was a general evacuation order issued, though our data make it apparent that in all sites some per-Per Cent Thai [ sons believed they had received such orders and acted in terms of snt Received that belief. Respondents were asked, "Were you at any time ordered Fified First Warning or advised to evacuate?" The results, classified by areas, are tabu-lng by Media lated in Table 2.14.

l ~ 55.2 Table 2.14. Percentage of Respondents from Each Area Giving Various Aaswers to the Question, "Were 8

32.6 You at Any Time Ordered or Advised to Evacuate?"

11.7 Yes, Yes, No, No Area Ordered Advised Neither Answer Total Number

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• 6 92 2 100 504 Calhoun County 2 34 64

• 100 200 C2meron Parish 14 65 17 .3 100 208 Chambers County 5 24 71

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Galveston 3 31 63 3 100 401

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!Ardia In all areas except Cameron Parish, the majority of respondents said they were neither ordered nor advised to evacuate. Even in Cal-ggg houn County, over which the eye of the storm passed, 64 per cent of i . the respondents gave this answer. Only in Cameron Parish did a sig-500 ni icant proportion of respondents report being " ordered to evacuate" f 847 (14 per cent).

l 59 203 11.8 24 The number and proportion of people in the sample from each i -

area who evacuated, contrasted with the number and proportion who I

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said they received advice or orders to evacuate, are given in Table 2.15. A direct relationship is seen to exist between evacuation and the advice or orders to evacuate.

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Table 2.15. Comparison of Evacuation Rate with Advice or Orders to Svacuate

..y Evacuees Ordered or Advised Area Number Per Cent Number Per Cent Baytown 199 39.5 34 6. 7  ;

Calhoun County 178 89.0 71 35.5 Cameron Parish 201 96.6 172 79 3 Chambers County l 145 65.6 63 28.5 Galveston 268 66.8 137 34.1 y

In order to determine whether respondents reacted to warning i in terms of a systematic evacuation plan, they were asked: "So far

as you know was there a local plan for evacuation?" Table 2.16 con- j tains the distribution of responses to this question.

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There a Local Plan for Evacuation?

Don't No. Total Yes No Know Ans. Per Total Area  %  %  %  % Cent Number Baytown 16 66 17 1 100 504 Calhoun County 29 60 10 1 100 200 Cameron Parish 61 22 17 0 100 205 Chambers County 33 55 11 1 100 221 Galveston 49 35 13 3 100 401 Total 35 49 14 2 100 1,531 32 u:w, . .

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i-lr, are given in Table f In only one area. Cameron Parish, did the majority of respond-

tween evacuation and ents say there was a plan for evacuation. In other areas less than half of the respondents knew of such a plan.

Cameron Parish is unique in this respect: In that area, an elab-orate plan of evacuation had been worked out shortly after Hurricane Audrey in 1957. This plan had been highly publicized. Neighborhood civil defense groups had been established and had been meeting regu-

! cuttion larly for three years. Nevertheless. 39 per cent of the respondents

vacuste from Cameron Parish said that no evacuation plan existed. or that they did not know of one.' It is difficult to imagine how a plan of evac-i Ordared or Advised untion could be more publicized and more actively prepared than that Number Per Cent for this area. Nevertheless, a substantial proportion of the popula-34 6.7 tion remained unaware of it. Despite these considerations, Cameron 71 35.5 Parish had the highest evacuation rate for Hurricane Carla. Only

172 79.3 three per cent of the respondents who were questioned did not evacuate.

63 28.5 l 137 34.1 There appears to be a relationship between knowledge of, or i

belief in, the existence of an evacuation plan and rate of evacuation.

i Table 2.17 shows the rate of evacuation compared to the proportion of respondents who said there was an evacuation plan. If Calhoun I County, which received the greatest. impact of the hurricane. is re-moved from Table 2.17, the rate of evacuation and the rate of knowl-l edge about evacuation plans are seen to be directly related.

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IO"* Table 2.17. Rate of Evacuation Compared .

to Knowledge of Evacuation Plans j

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ion? 16.1 Baytown 39.5

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. Per Total Calhoun County 89 0 Cent Number 60.6 Cameron Parish 96.6

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100 200 Chambers County 65.8 33.5 i 100 205 100 221 Galveston 66.8 48.9 100 401 100 1,531 33 O