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After Slamming Cuba, Hurricane Gustav Heading For Gulf Coast
August 31st, 2008
First, drum beats from Womanist Musings about INCITE’s call for donations for assistance to women of color in New Orleans fleeing the storm.
While I always encourage people to donate to charity; it’s up to you to checkout who you’re donating to.
- According to the Associated Press:
Powerful Gustav hits Cuba; New Orleans evacuates
01:20 PM CDT on Sunday, August 31, 2008
HAVANA - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
Gustav hit the Isla de la Juventud south of the Cuban mainland just short of a top-scale Category 5 hurricane with screaming 140 mph (220 kph) winds that toppled telephone poles and fruit trees, shattered windows and leveled some homes.
Authorities evacuated 250,000 residents nationwide. In Pinar del Rio, the western tobacco-producing region, highways were blocked by fallen trees and downed power lines, and all public transportation ground to a halt.
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said in a locally televised press conference last night that “Tonight you need to be scared; you need to get your butts out of New Orleans now…”
Here is his press conference from today:
It’s not Just New Orleans or Louisiana
Calls Go Out In Texas, Ala., Mississippi
Mandatory evacuations have also started in parts of southeast Texas, and are set to continue through midday across a three-county region stretching to the Louisiana state line, with the last mandatory evacuation starting at noon in Beaumont.
In Mississippi, Jackson County officials said there would be a mandatory evacuation for all residents living in low-lying areas, mobile homes, cottages and FEMA travel trailers beginning 8 a.m. Sunday.
The Mississippi Department of Mental Health removed dozens of patients from the South Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Long Beach. Other community living facilities were also evacuated.
In Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley issued a mandatory evacuation order for some coastal parts of Mobile and Baldwin counties in response to Hurricane Gustav.
The evacuation order, effective at 7 a.m. Sunday, covers areas south of Interstate 10 in the southernmost part of Mobile County and on the west side of Mobile Bay, east of Dauphin Island Parkway.
Video on Alabama’s Preperation:
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