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Normal operating hours for the Lower Algiers/Chalmette crossing are 6 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. daily. Normal operating hours for the Algiers/Canal Streetcrossing are 6 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. daily. The Gretna/Jackson Avenue ferry will resume operations at 6 a.m.
Tags: gustav, jefferson, storm, The Louisiana Workforce Commission, Entergy Louisiana, hurricane gustav
Saturday, September 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, September 7, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., customer service representatives from the Small Business Administration (SBA) will be at Louisiana Technology Park to help those businesses affected by Hurricane...
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The final buses carrying Hurricane Gustav evacuees from the Birmingham area headed back to Louisiana, pulling out from downtown shortly after noon. The first wave of buses carrying evacuees left from Fair Park Arena about 9:45 a.m...The governor praised...
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IL traded slightly lower today in a market torn between the pressures of falling demand and worries over storms lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, fell 18 cents to $US107.71 a...
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Hurricane Gustav’s impact on fuel supplies and prices is likely to be mainly regional and short-lived, according to AAA Arizona. Statewide, drivers are currently paying an average of nearly $3.60 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas, a 3-cent drop from...
he seven-day stipulation only applies to situations where evacuees were not allowed back into their parishes because they were closed. Jacks said that since the evacuation began Saturday, no evacuees have yet qualified for the checks. "We're trying to...
Tags: gustav, Red Cross, gustav evacuees, cross shelter, Hurricane Gustav, Georgia
Gov. Bobby Jindal asked President Bush Wednesday to declare a state of emergency in all of the state’s 64 parishes. Bush initially only made the declaration for two types of aid for 34 parishes that sustained damage in Hurricane Gustav. The governor wants...
Facing rising pressure from those who had left, officials in most jurisdictions along the Gulf Coast began lifting evacuation orders even as they expressed serious reservations about conditions that returning residents would face. In particular, officials...
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At the same time, the study, published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, finds that more typical, run-of-the-mill tropical storms have not become stronger over that same period. “I think we do see a climate signal here,” said James B. Elsner,...
Tags: tropical cyclone, global warming, North Atlantic, sea warming, strongest hurricanes, tropical storms, Nature, James B. Elsner, Gustav, winds speed
New Orleans: President George W. Bush heads to storm-battered Louisiana on Wednesday to survey damage from Hurricane Gustav as tens of thousands who fled New Orleans prepare to return to a "dark and hot" city struggling to restore power and maintain basic...
Tags: Bush at Louisiana, Gustav, Visting, Looking at damage, Looking for surveys