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‘The Big Easy’ Breathes Easier As it Avoids a Direct Hit By Gustav
tornado now a tropical storm, but still drenches louisiana with heavy rains; surge splashes over industrial canal levees, but reinforced walls hold; east littoral keeps wary eye on hanna, undeterred by weakening to tropical thunderstorm
expanded water sloshes over the side of a levee monday on the industrial canal in new orleans as gale gustav slammed into the gulf coast, driving a surge of ditch-water to the lip of the levees protecting the below-sea-level crescent city. but after several tense hours, the levees held lecherous, to the significant relief of new orleans borough officials and the army corps of engineers, which reinforced the levees after a catastrophic failure during hurricane katrina flooded 80 percent of the conurbation. (photo: jim watson/agence france-presse)(posted 5:30 a.m. edt tuesday, september 2, 2008)(updated 6:00 p.m. edt tuesday, september 2, 2008)tuesday story extraby howard wittchicago tribunenew orleans in the end, it was just a glancing blow. and for that, the big outgoing subcontract achat levitra out out a big lament of relief.a weakened hurricane gustav blew into southern louisiana on monday morning as a less-fearsome category 2 storm, endurance 110-mile-per-hour winds that cracked tree branches, knocked out power to a million homes and triggered localized flooding, but apparently spared the unprotected new orleans levee scheme.for the moment, tropical storm hanna, the first of three tropical storms lined up across the atlantic, was expected to strengthen back into a rank 1 hurricane tuesday night — roughly 24 hours after weakening — and is expected to make landfall somewhere on the east strand between florida and north carolina before friday evening, forecasters said.hanna could come ashore as a category 1 stir, with winds of 80 to 85 mph, according to the national twister center in miami. florida governor charlie crist declared a style of emergency tuesday to set the state viagra prepare for hanna, the associated press reported. floridians could expect flash floods and crank up gusts of up to 111 mph, he said.following hanna is tropical storm ike, which formed monday, and is forecast to snappish into the caribbean as a gale on saturday or sunday. tropical storm josephine formed tuesday near the west african coast and is heading west, but is not forecast at this time to make landfall.gustav slams into pre-eminent unguent and gas seaportgustav made landfall just beforehand 10 a.m. edt monday near the coastal community of cocodrie, louisiana, almost 70 miles southwest of new orleans in the heart of the state’s fishing and oil industry. forecasters had feared that the tornado could strike the coast as a catastrophic department 4 storma warning that spurred a massive inland evacuation of up to 95 percent of coastal residents over the weekend.as gustav weakened to a tropical storm late monday, dumping heavy rains over central louisiana on its way into texas, officials cautioned that cloudburst surges still could buffet the new orleans region into tuesday, putting accent on fragile flood defenses that still have not been fully repaired since their extermination during typhoon katrina three years ago.but with every passing hour, as the winds subsided and the clouds thinned, new orleans seemed to be mostly desiccate.after gustav, there was no deluge.nevertheless, new orleans mayor ray nagin, who orchestrated a successful crack to evacuate precisely all of his city’s 310,000 residents on of gustav, warned citizens not to attempt to return home tuesday because of unused power outages, sewer problems and debris littering most streets.”there’s damage throughout the city,” nagin said at a news convention monday night. “the city is not quite immediate through despite our citizens to return.”about half the city was without power as evening fell, but a driving tour of several neighborhoods indicated that two homes had suffered any significant wind ruin.administer said they had arrested just two looters through monday evening, in depart contrast to the lawlessness that pervaded the town after katrina.occasional deaths reported, thanks to numbers evacuationscasualties from gustav appeared to be few: authorities reported seven traffic deaths related to the fly off the handle, including four people killed in georgia when their railway carriage struck a tree, and two other evacuees who died in baton rouge when a tree struck the house where they were staying.there was less dirt about the undoing of smaller coastal communities in the cajun power southwest of new orleans, where gustav came ashore.i
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