We’ll take incremental change over no change any time. And, to be fair, we don’t monitor state-level efforts consistently enough to track progress on a regular basis. Still, a “shout out” to the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management which has posted pdf maps for each county of local roads which lead to state roads which will be the principal routes for vehiclular evacuation. And which also points out that, at least in some communities, 911 can be reversed and used as an auto-dialer to phone and notify citizens. We don’t know how many calls it can make simultaneously – but since it’s digital – it’s likely to be scalable.

New Yorkers like to make fun of people “from Jersey” – but the fact is, our smaller neighbor is often an earlier innovator than the Empire State.