Plymouth, Montserrat mud and lava would have been scorched and left completely non-arable by the heat of the pyroclastic flows. Plymouth was abandoned and the entire southern half of the island was declared an exclusion zone because of the continuing volcanic activity at the Soufrière Hills. The government of the island was moved to Brades, although Plymouth remains the "de jure" capital. , a new port and capital are under construction at Little Bay, on the island's northwest coast. The destruction of Plymouth caused severe economic problems for the island of Montserrat. Plymouth had been by far the largest settlement on the
Long Island (Massachusetts) leaders, and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) – made the decision to close the Long Island Bridge (which had suffered for decades from neglect and lack of maintenance) and evacuate the programs located on Long Island. Long Island is currently used to support social service programs, as it has since 1882, contained in Boston Public Health Commission Long Island Health Campus facilities in 19 buildings on . This large campus of buildings presently houses the Long Island Shelter for the homeless in the Tobin Building since 1983, Project S.O.A.R. in the Administration Building since autumn 1995, Pine Street Inn's