About 1.25 million people fled Escaping the storm Catastrophe in Florida alone , contributing Supply to a region-wide total of nearly 2 million evacuees .

Most of the evacuees went to Self_motion hotels or stayed Temporary_stay with friends or relatives , causing Causation an increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in business across southeastern Virginia , where effects Influence were minimal .

The U.S. Embassy in Saigon was intended to only be a secondary evacuation point for embassy staff , but it was soon overwhelmed Filling with evacuees and desperate South Vietnamese .

In the northern Gulf of Mexico , a helicopter crashed Catastrophe after carrying Carry_goods evacuees from an oil rig , killing Killing 11 people .