Mayor Bloomberg has ordered evacuations of some areas in NYC by 5 pm Saturday.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/...g-evacuations/

"Bloomberg also announced a mandatory evacuation of all residents in the coastal areas dubbed Zone A and also extended the mandatory evacuation zone to include all of the Rockaways. Zone A includes Battery Park City and parts of Lower Manhattan, the Rockaways and Coney Island. Roughly 270,000 residents are affected."

There is a link in this article that you can use to see if your address is part of the evacuation zone.

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