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- Texas Department of Transportation says 2.4 million evacuated from Houston for Hurricane Rita on CNN Live, September 22, 2005.
- In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina lead to a mass evacuation of the city of New Orleans in the US state of Louisiana, with approximately 80% of the city's population of 484,000 evacuating before the storm struck.
- In 2002 severe flooding led to the evacuation of 50,000 residents of Prague, Czech Republic, on 14 August, with a total of 200,000 Czechs during the second August week. Also partially evacuated in the same week were the German city of Dresden (120,000 evacuees) and the town Bitterfeld (16,000).
- In April 2001, 77,000 inhabitants (around 2/3 of the population) of the Italian city Vicenza were evacuated for several hours so that an unexploded bomb, originally dropped in World War II, could be safely disarmed.
- In 1999 the Kosovo War led to 800,000 refugees, not all of them urban residents, leaving Kosovo and being accommodated for up to 3 months in other parts of Europe.
- In 1998, CNN.com reported 300,000 people were evacuated in preparation for a possible breech of the dikes along the Yangtze River. Nearly 14 million people had previously been evacuated for the massive flooding, and 5.6 million houses were destroyed (cnn.com).
- The size of Floyd, its intensity, and its track stirred uneasy memories of Hugo as well as Hurricane Andrew (August 1992) prompting public officials to launch one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history with an estimated 3 million people moving out of harm’s way from the Atlantic coast (fema.gov).
- In October 1941 a mass evacuation of Moscow was ordered in the face of the threat of the attacking German Wehrmacht. 2 million inhabitants were displaced from the city within two weeks.
- In September 1939, at the outset of World War II, London and major British cities were evacuated with 1.5 million displacements in the first 3 days of the official evacuation taking place reaching a final total of 3.75 million.
- In 480 BC the Greek officer of state and navy commander Themistocles ordered the evacuation of Athens as a strategic countermeasure to the approaching Persian army, leading to 100,000 inhabitants being displaced in the late summer.
