Hurricane Gustav 2008 Roars towards New Orleans with a Vengeance
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In buses, cars, planes and trains, approximately 1 million vulnerable residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are fleeing the U.S. Gulf Coast Sunday morning as Hurricane Gustav roars towards New Orleans with a vengeance.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita (both of which were category 5 hurricanes), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is prepared for imminent danger; however, more than 7,000 families were still living in FEMA homes before the storm approached the ninth largest body of water in the world: The oil rich Gulf of Mexico, into which Tropical Storm Hanna itself may also enter soon as a potential deadly intensified hurricane.
As if a hurricane and a tropical storm weren’t enough: Forecasters are tracking a tropical wave off the western coast of Africa.
Hurricane Gustav’s shockingly monsterous growth from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in less than 24 hours has prompted Mayor Ray Nagin to give the mandatory order last night, resulting in many spooked people fleeing for their lives as the dangerously intensified “Storm of the Century” pursuing a projected path: Hurricane Gustav — which Nagin told the public that Gustav is the “mother of all storms” — is aimed at New Orleans. Currently, the storm has been downgraded to a category 3.
Many residents — affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — are wasting no time to get out of the path of one of the most deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, which has already claimed the lives of 81 people in the Caribbean by Saturday. The storm, which could swell into a monsterous Category 5 hurricane by today, has sustained winds of more than 155 mph.
City officials has stated that…
- Hurricane Gustav will make landfall in 24 to 26 hours.
- No city-run shelters will be set up within New Orleans.
- Curfews are mandatory and subject to arrest if the curfew has been broken.
- Local residents ought to call 211 for more hurricane information.
- The National Guard has been mobolized.
Senator John McCain is prepared to either postpone or dramatically reschedule the GOP convention this week, reflecting the grave prediction of imminent danger. The senior Senator from Arizona is ready for a possible natural disaster, which could either greatly benefit or adversely affect his 2008 Presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, Dr. James Dobson and Michael Moore have angered many people for the tasteless statements both men made regarding the 2008 Presidential Elections.
James Dobson — who heads Focus on the Family — has recently instructed fellow conservative Republican Christians to join him to “pray for rain of Biblical proportions” to disrupt Senator Barack Obama’s historical speech at the 2008 Denver Convention, resulting in many athiests to assert that perhaps ‘God’ has decided to disrupt Senator McCain’s speech instead. Many appalled Christian youths have expressed shock upon hearing the remarks of the Christian psychologist and native of Louisiana.
Also, Michael Moore — Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, actor, author, and liberal political commentator — responding to Dobson’s unanswered prayer by applauding Hurricane Gustav, stating that there is indeed a “God.”
Moore’s involking the name of God and joking about Hurricane Gustav have resulted in some loyal fans protesting Moore’s tasteless humor. However, Moore simply doesn’t actually want a natural disaster to strike anywhwere.
And, NO, the Democratic voters did NOT “pray for rain of Biblical proportions” to disrupt Senator McCain historical speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Perahaps Hillary Clinton did!
Throughout today, nearly 1 million people will have fled the U.S. Gulf Coast. Many local, state and federal officials hope many residents have complied with the evacuation order to flee the area to safer areas inland.
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