Texas Hurricane Information

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Evacuation

• Texas Department of Transportation Hurricane Information
• Governor's Division of Emergency Management includes information on preparing for evacuation and a link to a page with evacuation route maps.
• 211 Texas website
  Instructions for how people with disabilities, special healthcare needs, or no car can register for evacuation transportation assistance.
• Texas Evacuation and Preparedness Information for Blind and/or Hearing Impaired
• Texas Road Conditions
• Texas Evacuation Information and Routes by County/District
• Texas Shelter Information
  Refer to local media sources for shelter information.

Emergency Numbers

• NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets for Texas

Emergency Management

• FEMA Region VI (Texas, Louisiana)
• Texas emergency management

Local Preparation

• Newspapers, Television, and Radio Stations
• Texas newspapers
• Texas television stations
• Texas radio stations

Other

• Texas Hazard Vulnerability layers from the Coastal Risk Atlas
• Texas Hurricane Survival Guide
• El Ojo de la Tormenta: Guia para los Tejanos en caso de un Huracan
• Safety/Recreational Information
• Texas Natural Resources Information System
  Live Doppler Feed on the Hurricane Season Resources page
  The program streams Doppler RADAR data into a Virtual Earth Mapper.
• The Texas Hazard Mitigation Package has some hazard related GIS data people might find useful.
• Texas Sustainable Coastal Initiative
  On this web based atlas, viewers can see floodplain, storm surge boundaries, evacuation routes, individual parcel info for Galveston county, aerial photos, and lots of other useful information for the entire TX coast.

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