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Evacuations possible as Hurricane Heads for New Orleans
August 27th, 2008
- This Article is from Reuters:
New Orleans considers evacuation as Gustav looms
By Kathy Finn
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again confronted the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.
Not since Katrina struck on August 29, 2005, have residents faced a forced departure from their homes and businesses as many still struggle to rebuild their lives in a city famed for its jazz clubs and Mardi Gras festival.
Storm levees broke under the onslaught of Katrina, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and killing almost 1,500 people in the city and along the Gulf of Mexico coast. The hurricane caused $125 billion in wind and flood damage.
With Tropical Storm Gustav swirling near Cuba and likely to enter the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane this weekend, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said an evacuation could begin as early as Friday — three years to the day after Katrina inundated New Orleans.
Jindal said he had activated the state’s catastrophic action team and could declare a state of emergency as early as Thursday. He also put the Louisiana National Guard on alert…
I heard on headline news that they’ve done away with the whole “refuge of last resort” thing, so the Superdome will not be in use.
Also the spoke of what I would call a phased evaccuation between Friday and Saturday.
Gustav has already hit Dominican Republic and Haiti:
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I heard this preparing for work. I hope and pray that the people of New Orleans are spared another major hit!
Let’s hope so. I’m calling my cousin and telling her she needs to leave early this time; before her and her kids be on the roof again.
My prayers are with the Gulf Coast.
If the weather channel’s cone of certainty is correct, Gustav is going right at NO right now. If it veers left, it will be pretty bad. Right, a bit better - for a hurricane.
Crazy. Just what we didn’t need.
I need to send up some prayers too. I had not heard this update today that you just gave of such strong likelihood that it will hit N.O.
Last I read it seemed an almost even chances that it could go anywhere along the gulf coast.
This link reflects the path:
www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm7/atl7projectedpath_large.html?from=hp_news
NO will get a significant amount of whatever Gustav dishes, with strengthening. Being so far out, it will be about Sunday AM before I suppose they can narrow it to a definite 50-100 mile corridor for landfall.