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Gustav evacuees grow weary in crowded shelters
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
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With his city spared from major damage, and his husky body surpassing the edges of a narrow cot, Eddie Brown had come to believe Gustav was no longer the villain in this hurricane story: It was this rusted and vacant Sam's warehouse brimming with 3,000...
Tags: hurricane, hurrican, gustav, orleans, storm, new, Post-Gustav New Orleans, weather, hurricanes gustav
In Houma, 'the rain felt like bullets'
Houma :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility David White, a 57-year-old lifelong resident of this coastal community, said he'd never felt or heard winds as intense as those that lashed his hometown at mid-morning today, toppling billboards, destroying roofs and battering sugar cane. Hurricane Gustav...
Gustav refugees arrive
Harvey :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility 2008 Snead State Community College became home Monday morning for approximately 350 New Orleans, La. evacuees seeking refuge from Hurricane Gustav. Six large tour-type buses, escorted by Alabama State Trooper Chuck Ellis, arrived on campus at 5:20 a.m.
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Wind biggest problem; many roads blocked
Gonzales :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Strong winds downed numerous trees Monday in Ascension Parish...Some of it crashed into houses. “It was worse for us than Katrina,” said Parish President Tommy Martinez, whose home was heavily damaged by a tree that snapped in winds that reached 75 mph...
Tags: hurrican, gustav, storm, emergency preparedness, iberville parishes, ascension parishes, Iberville Parish
Culver invites hurricane refugees to Iowa
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iowans stand ready to help Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav, and will take in evacuees if necessary, Gov. Chet Culver said today. Just as the people of America stood with us during the floods of June, Iowans stand with the people of the...
'Bihar floods, Gustav reminders of climate change'
Bihār :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Achim Steiner said that more damaging weather extremes were in line with forecasts by the UN Climate Panel...He said it was impossible to link individual weather events, such as Hurricane Gustav battering the US Gulf Coast on Monday, to climate change...
Tags: Bihar, Gustav, hurricane gustav
Storm leaves million without electricity
Beaumont :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Utility workers spent Monday’s remaining daylight hours scouting downed transmission lines and substations that left almost a million Louisiana residents without power after Hurricane Gustav lashed the Gulf Coast. Thousands of workers will begin this...
Tags: hurricane, gustav, Louisiana, storm, Baton Rouge, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Gustav, Entergy Corp.
Upcoming hurricane names: Marco, Paloma and Teddy
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from a list generated by the National Hurricane Center. The list below is provided by the National Weather Service. Twenty-one names are assigned to each year. If more hurricanes than names occur in...
Just who started naming hurricanes, anyway?
The practice of assigning hurricanes proper names began in the early 20th century, when an Australian forecaster began designating tropical cyclones with the names of political figures he disliked. Punditty gleaned this fascinating information by...
Tags: Gustav, Hurricanes
Volunteers, nurses needed
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The American Red Cross is in critical need of volunteers and nurses at its Monroe Civic Center evacuee shelter...Volunteers are needed by many service organizations offering relief to Hurricane Gustav evacuees. Wanda Hogan of the Red Cross disaster response...
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