Ocean City, NJ (AP) - Tens of thousands of visitors to the Jersey shore and many people have begun an orderly exodus mainly Thursday after a series of requests to evacuate - including orders to leave Atlantic City and all Cape May County, which was expected to escape Hurricane Irene largest evacuation in the history of the state. Atlantic City casinos 11 was refreshing for a likely closure, there would be only their third since it opened in 1978.
"Do not try to chase him away. It's not a smart thing to do," Christie said at a press conference at State level Regional Intelligence Center, police operations. He asked all coastal visitors volunteered to go home before noon on Friday, leaving his family in the summer residence of the governor Island Beach State Park.
Nearly one million people could be covered by the mandatory evacuations - depending on how many tourists were in each affected area.
By early evening on Thursday, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and state police said that reports of serious problems with any means of escape, even if a woman's family said his daughter was locked in Cape May County route 47 for four hours is unlikely to move in the middle of mandatory evacuations there. Local emergency management officials said they were aware of the delay much shorter than in some other way, but the email did not include a road problem on the spot. State officials were planning to do and the second in Cape May County just west of road vehicles by 18:00 on Friday. The state was also planning to leave the city expressway tolls Atlantic and the southern part of the Garden State Parkway easy for people to leave.
Officials in Cape May County, the isthmus, where the Atlantic Ocean on one side of Delaware Bay and on the other hand, all ordered to leave by Friday. Mandatory evacuations are also parts of the Atlantic County and the state's longest barrier island, 18 nautical miles from Long Beach Island.
The last major evacuation occurred in September 1985, when casinos were closed and people in several barrier islands were ordered to higher ground as Hurricane Gloria presented. Some 90,000 people fled their homes before the storm, which made a sharp turn from the coast and caused only a fraction of the damage was expected.
