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I just looked at yahoo news, which has none of this information. 16 minutes ago.


NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Gustav steamed toward the Louisiana coast early Monday on track to hit west of New Orleans as the few remaining in the city watched nervously and hoped levees only partly reinforced in the three years since Katrina would hold.
Those who heeded days of warnings to get out watched from shelters and hotel rooms hundreds of miles away, praying the powerful Category 3 storm and its 115-mph winds would pass without the same deadly toll.
"We're nervous, but we just have to keep trusting in God that we don't get the water again," said Lyndon Guidry, who hit the road for Florida just a few months after he was able to return to his home in New Orleans. "We just have to put our faith in God."
Water gushed off buildings and flags hung in tatters, ripped to shreds in the high winds. But there were no reports of serious flooding, and only scattered clusters of power outages.
The painful memories of Katrina, which flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed more than 1,600 along the Gulf Coast, led officials to aggressively insist that everyone in Gustav's path flee from shore. As the storm grew near, the streets of the city were empty — save for National Guardsmen and just about every officer on the city's police force standing watch for looters

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I can't stand this shit. I believe in trusting in God, but what about Bob Breck? "Flags ripped to shreds." Is that their best attempt at sensentionaliztion?

We just got to see one palm tree lying on the ground outside the Fox 8 building.

Now I'm watching Channel 6 and the ticker tape is going by: WDSU's coverage: 87.7 f.m.
Water is now being pumped to maintain safe elevation. Power Outages. Entergy reports more than 93,000 customers without power. 32,268 in New Orleans. 639 in St, Bernard.

I don't know if it's helpful to anyone (myself included) for me to type what I'm seeing on television onto a blog. WDSU says Gustav is still holding category 3 strenght and we're expecting 115 mph winds. Hurricane Force winds will spread across the area (gulf coast) over Monday and Tuesday. There is also risk for tornadoes on the right side of the storm. All of this is true, but it's not specific enough. Water is being pumped, but they're not mentioning that the pumps are working or that the heavy rainfall is only coming in spurts so the pumps can keep up.

I can hear the wind whipping around out there again. The power hasn't flickered in a while here. WDSU has now called Gustav a Category 2. I'm going back to FOX.

Oh, I hear Chief Warren Riley's voice superimposed over the shot of that fallen palm tree. His goal is that everyone will come home to a house that has not been looted. Nancy Parker isn't sure if they're counting households or people suffering from power outages.

Bob's 8 a.m. update: Good news. "Gustav has not had the chance to get organized." New Orleans has been more organized than Gustav. And he's moving really west as opposed to NW.