American Red Cross disaster team members and Massachusetts Maritime Academy cadets played the roles of rescuers and evacuees fleeing Cape Cod during an annual hurricane drill.
(BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF)
Cape Cod stages mock hurricane evacuation
American Red Cross disaster team members and Massachusetts Maritime Academy cadets played the roles of rescuers and evacuees fleeing Cape Cod during an annual hurricane drill.
(BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF)
No part of Massachusetts is more susceptible to a hurricane than Cape Cod, a 65-mile elbow of sand where any mass evacuation to the mainland must be squeezed over two narrow bridges. On a peak summer weekend, the shores swell with more than a million vacationers, a scenario that could create a traffic catastrophe if even a weak hurricane took ... (Full article: 360 words)
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