Zone A is seen in orange. The city's Office of Emergency Management is updating its evacuation maps in light of new scientific data and the lessons of Hurricane Sandy.
The city’s evacuation zone maps used 2003 data. Some federal maps may have predicted a wider area of flooding. But scientists also made Sandy storm-surge predictions that were dwarfed when the tropical system rolled in.
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