UVA hopes to improve hurricane evacuation orders
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Hurricane Season begins June first, and emergency managers will be watching storms as they evolve.
If forecasters think one will come ashore, officials will likely issue an evacuation order, but how much faith do people have in those orders? How far in advance should they be issued and by whom?
Those are questions the University of Virginia hoped to answer by analyzing tracking information from cell phones.
Sandy Hausman has more on this first-of-a-kind project.
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