1. Isaac's potential landfall as a Category 1 hurricane as early as Tuesday prompted evacuations along a wide area of the Gulf Coast.
2. One version used three standard doors per side with an additional, smaller door aft of the wing on each side for emergency evacuations.
3. The US Federal Emergency Management agency still was uncertain about the timing of evacuations along the coast.
4. Efficient and effective government management has limited the impact of flooding on residents, and local governments on both sides of the Huaihe have organized mass evacuations.
5. The island's emergency operation center Saturday afternoon required the authorities of the possibly affected areas to strengthen preventive evacuations.
6. Many of the wounded were forced to submit to emergency amputations due to delayed evacuations while hundreds of thousands more faced hunger and exposure.
7. The United States and France prepared to evacuate their citizens, and Britain dispatched an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean in apparent preparation for evacuations.
8. Liberian forces and local radio reported more fighting on Monrovia's west side as the evacuations began.
9. Germany is still littered with unexploded Allied munitions more than six decades after the war, leading frequently to major evacuations when they are discovered in densely populated areas.
10. He urged local government to make full preparations for possible evacuations in case of severe flooding.