Check this out, FEMA:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12829941/

China evacuates 600,000 amid record typhoon

HONG KONG - China evacuated more than 600,000 people as the strongest typhoon on record to enter the South China Sea in May bore down on the south coast on Wednesday, causing flight and shipping delays around the region.

Typhoon Chanchu, packing winds up to 106 mph, was forecast to make landfall northeast of Hong Kong in Guangdong province later on Wednesday after killing 37 people as it swept across the Philippines last weekend.

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In the Philippines, Chanchu killed at least 37 people and “affected” about 53,300 people in wide areas of Luzon and the Visayas, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said in a report on Monday.

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Wow--they planned ahead.

What's the proper liquor etiquette for a Chinese Typhoon party?

Sake? Plum wine?

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/worldandus/archives/2005/09/sunsentinel_loo_1.php
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Cubans have weathered some of the most violent storms the tropics can churn up, with surprisingly low death tolls and almost perfect compliance with evacuation orders.

Last year, United Nations emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland singled out Cuba for praise among Caribbean nations for hurricane-evacuation planning. When Hurricane Ivan swiped the island last September, for example, Cuba didn't record a single death, while 115 people died in other parts of the region. The same month, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 1,500 in Haiti, with many drowning in floodwaters.

I was there on the Yucatan Pen. coast shortly after one of the hurricanes. Tourists were shipped home or housed in schools, etc. inland. It worked!