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. 2021 Mar 25;12:1870. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22160-w

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Fig. 3 — a 3624 residents (7.10% of the total sample) left their home neighborhood, but stayed within the Houston area. Blue dots denote the outbound number of people and red dots denote the inbound number of people for a given neighborhood. Many people in the west area near reservoirs were forced to leave their home due to flooding during and after Harvey. People who left their neighborhood mostly evacuated to the Downtown area where multiple mega-shelters were located (b) 758 people (1.53% of the total sample) traveled to other parts of Texas (outside of the greater Houston area). Major destinations of those evacuees are College station, San Antonio, and Dallas where additional shelter programs were operating. c 940 people (1.84% of the total sample) left the Houston area to other states including Louisiana, New Mexico, and California. Most evacuees traveling out of Texas headed to Louisiana, the nearest neighboring state.