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- Hurricane season 2025: Interactive storm tracker; supply lists, evacuation info and more
Hurricane season 2025: Interactive storm tracker; supply lists, evacuation info and more
You may be asked or told to evacuate so that you’re out of an area that a hurricane or tropical storm is bearing down on.
There’s a ZIP code color-coded map. Storm surge is a big threat with tropical weather, so people close to the coast may need to evacuate to get out of harm’s way.
To get people to safety more quickly, the state has a system of contraflow, which is when all inbound lanes of a freeway change to flow outbound.
State and local leaders, along with emergency operations personnel, make the call on that. They can order contraflow on I-10, I-45, 290 and the Eastex Freeway, sending people to San Antonio, Dallas, Austin or East Texas.