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31

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.

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