Potential Risks due to Evacuation:
- Evacuations involving the elderly or people with special needs could cause these populations to become emotionally agitated, might result in their injury if they fall while evacuating, or could expose them to conditions that they are ill-prepared to handle.
In Louisiana, for example, when elderly citizens were evacuated from nursing homes, they were subjected to relatively high temperatures for long periods of time in cars and vans in stop-and-go traffic, resulting in problems with dehydration and hyperthermia.