Health & Fitness
The Bus Stop
There are 112 Emergency Evacuation Bus Routes in northwester Westchester County with hundreds of bus stops. There are likely several in your neighborhood.
A certain blue bus stop sign attracts my eye every time I pass it on Old Post Rd. North. I guess because it is located right in front of someone’s house, not at a corner. It is not a sign unique as there are many more throughout the Village and along major streets and roads in north western Westchester County. It says “Emergency Evacuation Bus Stop”. My Indian Point Emergency Evacuation Guide tells me that I should go there if I am instructed to evacuate and do not have my own transportation. It does not tell me when or often a bus will come. Should I just go to the nearest bus stop and wait? How long? Is it advisable to wait outside if conditions warrant an evacuation? In my case, I am told that Bus No. W33 will pick me up at an intersection about a ½ mile from where I live. Will it come more than once? How will I know if I missed it?
Where will the bus take me? The Guide tells me that I will be taken to a General Population Reception Center – one of 6 in northwestern Westchester but outside of the 10 mile evacuation zone. Not very far out of the zone in my case, just to the Westchester Community College Gym in Valhalla. Students in Croton schools will also be evacuated, with their teachers, by buses going to School Reception Centers. They don’t have to wait at bus stops as presumably their buses and drivers will be available. Croton students will be taken to the Westchester Community College Student Center. At least evacuees from Croton will all be together on the same campus, except the teachers and bus drivers who will be evacuating other people’s families, not their own.
Poor Rover and Fluffy; they are not permitted inside the Reception Centers. I need to make arrangements beforehand to take them to be cared for by a kennel or friends or relatives outside the zone. This is bad news for them if I have no transportation (which is why I need the bus). On the other hand, the good news is if I do have transportation to take them away to their safe haven, I won’t have to worry about catching the bus.
