But for people needing immediate information about evacuation routes, the Internet is no substitute for local radio and television newscasts, officials agree.

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It implements our traffic management plan, where we rely upon hundreds of law enforcement agencies to control traffic and ensure that those main evacuation routes are monitored and traffic is kept flowing.

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They also have two evacuation routes, she said.

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The first order of business was to get gasoline to the Houston market and highway corridors of I-45 and I-10, which served as primary evacuation routes and trails of tears for thousands of motorists stranded alongside the road when their cars ran out of gas.

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The report assesses both life-and-death issues like evacuation recommendations include reviewing routes to account for the possibility of flooding or road closures and such matters as working with volunteers.

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