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New Orleans Considers Evacuation As Gustav Looms
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New Orleans considers evacuation as Gustav looms
By Kathy Finn
1 hour, 27 minutes ago
Aug. 27, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again confronted the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.
Not since Katrina struck on August 29, 2005, have residents faced a forced departure from their homes and businesses as many still struggle to rebuild their lives in a city famed for its jazz clubs and Mardi Gras festival.
Storm levees broke under the onslaught of Katrina, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and killing almost 1,500 people in the city and along the Gulf of Mexico coast. The hurricane caused $125 billion in wind and flood damage.
With Tropical Storm Gustav swirling near Cuba and likely to enter the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane this weekend, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said an evacuation could begin as early as Friday -- three years to the day after Katrina inundated New Orleans.
Jindal said he had activated the state's catastrophic action team and could declare a state of emergency as early as Thursday. He also put the Louisiana National Guard on alert.
"We all need to be prepared and ready to respond, from the citizen level and at every level of government," Jindal said.
Jindal, elected as governor in October 2007, is hoping to avoid heavy criticism that fell on his predecessor, Kathleen Blanco, for not reacting quickly enough after Katrina.
Federal agencies and the New Orleans city government also faced the wrath of residents over their response to the disaster, while President George W. Bush was criticized for his role, including his initial decision to view the devastated city only from the air.
After Katrina, chaos broke out in New Orleans as stranded flood victims waited days for help. Many residents who fled the hurricane have not returned.
On Wednesday, Gustav drifted away from Haiti and the Dominican Republic after killing 16 people. Forecasters warned the storm may still become a dangerous hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, with their models showing it most likely on track to hit anywhere from the Florida panhandle to Texas.
Jindal said if the threat continues, his state could make 700 buses available for assisted evacuations, which could begin on Friday for people who need help due to medical or other conditions.
He advised other residents of the southern parishes to review their own emergency plans and be prepared to evacuate if an order is given.
The state's Office of Emergency Preparedness held a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with the presidents of all area parishes and emergency personnel to review current conditions and disaster plans.
The Louisiana SPCA announced it would shut down its shelter and begin evacuating the animals to other shelters.
(Editing by Chris Baltimore and John O'Callaghan)
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Gustav kills 22; US Gulf Coast prepares By
JONATHAN M. KATZ,
Associated Press Writer
52 minutes ago
Aug. 27, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 22 people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S. Gulf coast, including Louisiana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc three years ago.
Oil prices jumped above US$119 a barrel as workers began to evacuate from the offshore rigs responsible for a quarter of U.S. crude production and much of America's natural gas.
"We know it's going to head into the Gulf. After that, we're not sure where it's heading," said Rebecca Waddington, a meteorologist at the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. "For that reason, everyone in Gulf needs to be monitoring the storm. At that point, we're expecting it to be a Category 3 hurricane."
On Wednesday, Gustav was moving off of Haiti's southwestern peninsula into the waters between Cuba and Jamaica. Its tentative track pointed directly at the Cayman Islands, an offshore banking center where residents boarded up homes and stocked up on emergency supplies in preparation for a possible direct hit Friday.
Friday is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's strike on Louisiana and Mississippi, and Gustav's tentative track raised the possibility of a Labor Day landfall there. But the average error in five-day forecasts is about 310 miles (500 kms) in either direction, meaning the likeliest targets could be anywhere from south Texas to the Florida panhandle.
New Orleans officials began planning for possible evacuations, and urged people who might need help in an evacuation to call an emergency information number. Mississippi Emergency Management Director Mike Womack advised people along the coast to prepare.
Gustav is raising concern particularly because there are few surrounding wind currents capable of shearing off the top of the storm and diminishing its power, the hurricane center said. "Combined with the deep warm waters, rapid intensification could occur in a couple of days."
Gustav diminished to a tropical storm over Haiti but still had top winds of 60 mph (95 kph) and was dumping 12 inches or more of rain over the Caribbean. The storm was centered about 90 miles (145 kms) south-southeast of Guantanamo, heading west-northwest at 5 mph (7 kph), and forecasters said it could soon regain hurricane strength.
It was expected to pass between Jamaica and the southeastern coast of Cuba on Thursday, "however, any deviation to the left of the forecast track could bring the center of Gustav very near Jamaica," the hurricane center said.
Gustav's toll was becoming clearer Wednesday on the island of Hispaniola, where thousands were evacuated or fled their homes. At least 14 people were killed in mudslides and floods in Haiti, including a young girl swept off a bridge by flood waters, civil protection director Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste said.
Eight people, including two infants, died in a landslide in the Dominican Republic.
"They were all members of a family that had taken shelter since Tropical Storm Fay and left to go home because they thought the danger had passed," said Luis Luna Paulino, director of the civil defense agency.
A hurricane warning was in effect for parts of Cuba including the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. "My instinct is it will be a really wet night," base spokesman Bruce Lloyd said.
Gustav was already bringing downpours to eastern Cuba, where authorities evacuated nearly 30,000 people from low-lying areas and state television showed muddy, waist-high water damaging homes. Fidel Castro pledged in an essay that "no one will be forgotten" by the government.
The government of the Cayman Islands ordered people to secure loose materials in their yards to prevent them from becoming missiles in high winds, and told them to stock up on food, medicine and fuel for generators.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC began evacuating some 300 workers from offshore rigs, and other companies pulled out non-essential personnel. Any damage to the oil infrastructure or Gulf Coast refineries could send U.S. pump prices spiking, possibly before the busy Labor Day weekend.
"A bad storm churning in the Gulf could be a nightmare scenario," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago. "We might see oil prices spike $5 to $8 if it really rips into platforms."
Gustav roared ashore Tuesday near the southern Haitian city of Jacmel with top winds near 90 mph (145 kph), toppling palm trees and flooding the city's Victorian wooden buildings.
Flooding also was reported in coastal Les Cayes, where U.N. peacekeepers used tear gas to disperse demonstrators throwing rocks in a protest against rising food prices in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. Haiti has seen deadly food riots, and could be in for more if Gustav seriously damages crops.
Southern Haiti is prone to devastating floods because its mountainous terrain has been stripped of trees for farming.
In the Haitian capital, the chocolate waters of a river spilled over its banks, lapping at shacks in the Cite Soleil slum. Residents pushed bicycles and balanced boxes of belongings on their heads as they sought higher ground.
Gustav is almost certain to grow stronger, but where it goes once it moves over the deep, warm Gulf of Mexico is impossible to guess.
"Right now, we're talking about a tropical storm in Haiti," said David Nolan, an associate professor at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "There's a long way from where it is now to New Orleans."
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