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While Justin Bracken packs the family car, Cailin Sandvig, left, lifts their 10-month old son Milo from his stroller to join his twin inside the car, as they prepare to leave home in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York to avoid the spread COVID-19, Monday March 16, 2020. "We are fleeing the city," said Sandvig who works remotely for her job. "We are going to end up in Wheaton, Illinois, where we have a big old house to be in with my mom that's otherwise empty." Bracken added that from following the news "its been clear for a while that things are getting pretty serious—especially from Italy, it seems pretty eminent that things are about to get bad here." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

While Justin Bracken packs the family car, Cailin Sandvig, left, lifts their 10-month old son Milo from his stroller to join his twin inside the car, as they prepare to leave home in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York to avoid the spread COVID-19, Monday March 16, 2020. "We are fleeing the city," said Sandvig who works remotely for her job. "We are going to end up in Wheaton, Illinois, where we have a big old house to be in with…

March 20, 2020

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Fleeing virus for resort homes, some find welcome mat yanked
March 20, 2020 5:12 a.m.

Fleeing virus for resort homes, some find welcome mat yanked

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Some city folk have been fleeing to their second homes in resort areas to ride out the coronavirus outbreak near the beach or the ski slopes. But neighbors in many of those places are yanking the welcome mat — fearing infection and the overwhelming of already stretched resources in sleepy shore and mountain communities.