Hundreds of HurrEx participants wait outside the center to be screened, sorted, and bused to shelters.

   The exercise designers converted the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn into an evacuation center for the drill.

    OEM staff prepares to recieve evacuees.

  The Coastal Storm Plan anticipated evacuees with special needs.

  The drill designers created a family re-unification center in one of the larger rooms to help families meet up with lost members.

   A Red Cross volunteer calms an evacuee playing the part of a lost child. 

  Once the evacuees were screened, players loaded them onto buses and took them to hurricane shelters.

  At the conclusion of the drill OEM Commissioner Bruno hosted a press conference with Deputy Mayor Skyler.