South Carolina's response to Hurricane Floyd.

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Ten years after Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Floyd threatened a more densely populated South Carolina coastline. The increased coastal development, tremendous population growth, and high evacuation rates contributed to an evacuation that involved an unprecedented number of people, traffic problems, and level of public criticism. This analysis of evacuation decision making addressed three central topics based on the Hurricane Floyd evacuation experience: residents' criteria and sources of information for evacuation decisons, factors contributing to traffic congestion, and differences in public and elected official opinions on priorities in planning and what constitutes a successful evacuation. This research involved three components: 1) a mail survey of 223 Horry County residents who had first been surveyed following Hurricane Bonnie in 1998; 2) a phone survey of 536 residents throughout the coastal South Carolina evacuation zone; and, 3) a survey of local elected officals' perception of emergency planning priorities