Hurricane Gustav Comes Ashore

Hurricane Gustav Comes Ashore The Gulf Coast is battered again by severe weather New Orleans Mississippi
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Sarah Salley walks through floodwaters on the New Orleans lakefront. City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning on August 31, the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago.

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