Gustav A Hurricane Again And Expected To Become Even Stronger
Gustav was upgraded to hurricane status and is expected to grow in strength to major storm status (category 3 or higher). Louisiana is on alert and many parishes including those devastated by Hurricane Katrina (Jefferson Parish, St. Tammany Parish, St. Bernard Parish, St. Charles Parish, Plaquemines Parish, etc.) are under voluntary to mandatory evacuations. Many of those voluntary evacuations are scheduled to become mandatory later on Saturday. Updated information in the New Orleans area can be found via WWL radio, WWL-TV, WDSU, WVUE, WGNO, the Time-Picayune newspaper. Links to other Louisiana television stations can be found here. Emergency information in Louisiana may be found at Emergency.Louisiana.gov as well. Hundreds of buses are being brought to staging areas in an around New Orleans to evacuate people and many emergency shelters that used to prohibit pets are now allowing pets. These are only two of many changes made in response to what happened in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Many in the New Orleans area, especially those near various levees are severely worried about how well the levees, especially those repaired by the Army Corp of Engineers, will hold if Gustav hits. Furthermore, this is compounded by the fact that promised improvements to existing levees are woefully behind schedule. U.S. officials warned that gaps remain in New Orleans’ flood control system despite improvements after Katrina. Unlike his predecessor, Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is taking a much more proactive stance concerning the hurricane threat. All the major computer models at this time are forecasting landfall somewhere along the Louisiana Gulf Coastal region. Exactly at what point in south Louisiana is where they vary. Hurricane expert Mark Schleifstein writes, “Hurricane Gustav is expected to dramatically intensify as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico over the next three days, and now will arrive at the central Louisiana coast with strong Category 3 winds after briefly reaching Category 4 strength.”
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August 30th, 2008 at 5:34 am
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