Lesson from Ike: Cuba gets evacuations right

Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:41 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

When Hurricane Ike struck Cuba, Ronald Matos didn't think twice about fleeing his one-room wooden house for a government shelter. If there's one thing the communist island does right, it's evacuations.

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