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IMPORTANT HURRICANE INFORMATION

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  • Southern Massachusetts Hurricane Evacuation Study Technical Data Report (Part 3) links to PDF file

  • Key Hurricane Weather Sites Listed Below:

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  • SEA, LAKE, and OVERLAND SURGES from HURRICANES (SLOSH)

    The following files are based on the most recently issued SLOSH models from the Army Corps of Engineers. Open these files with Google Earth to view the inundation data for Category 1-4 hurricane surge. If you don't have Google Earth installed, go to www.earth.google.com to install the latest free version.

  • SLOSH Barnstable kmz format of SLOSH Barnstable file size 5MB

  • SLOSH Bristol kmz format of SLOSH Bristol file size 1MB

  • SLOSH Dukes kmz format of SLOSH Dukes file size 1MB

  • SLOSH Essex kmz format of SLOSH Essex file size 7MB

  • SLOSH Middlesex kmz format of SLOSH Middlesex

  • SLOSH Nantucket kmz format of SLOSH Nantucket

  • SLOSH Norfolk kmz format of SLOSH Norfolk

  • SLOSH Plymouth kmz format of SLOSH Plymouth file size 3MB

  • SLOSH Suffolk kmz format of SLOSH Suffolk file size 2MB

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