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Galveston residents to return in stages

Residents to be allowed back in stages; life inches to normalcy after Ike

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Louisiana tallies cost of Gustav, Ike - Hurricane Ike- msnbc.com

Up to 26,000 homes flooded by Ike; oil disruption not included in estimate

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Gustav Evacuations

Ahead of the path of what New Orleans' mayor was calling 'the mother of all storms', residents had to make tough... more

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Haiti is screaming for help

Just 700 miles off of the Florida coast, our neighbors in Haiti were scrambling on rooftops screaming for help on Tuesday as... more

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Mississippi undocumented workers feared evacuation

Recent major raids against undocumented workers led many to fear evacuation during hurricane Gustav. Bill Chandler, Founding... more

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Katrina and why the levees broke

Mark Schleifstein: Lack of commitment to public infrastructure to blame for Katrina flooding. Mark Schleifstein, co-author with... more

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Mining The Media - 09.04.08

Crazy raccoons! Crazy hurricanes! Crazy protestors at the RNC! And the RNC. This and more on infoMania's weekly round up of... more

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Hurricane Gustav: Relief in Real Time

A day after Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Gulf Coast, Operation Blessing crews are out assessing the damage and the need. ... more

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Hurricane Gustav Hits

Just over three years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana faced another major storm, Hurricane Gustav.

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Pizza guy delivers tornado footage

The best part, is when he says: "It looks like it's lifted off the ground. So, I'm going to deliver my... more

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Gustav weakens to tropical depression

The National Hurricane Center says Gustav has weakened to a tropical depression but is still a flood threat.

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Pumps keeping up with New Orleans flooding

By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Waves from Hurricane Gustav caused some flooding over the tops of levees in... more

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Levees overtopped as Hurricaine weakens to Cat. 1

CNN's live reporting is saying that some levees in New Orleans have been overtopped by water. And in a nearby county, some... more

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Gustav slams La. coastline west of New Orleans... all is well???

NEW ORLEANS – A weakened Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry Monday, avoiding a direct hit on flood-prone New Orleans and boosting hope that the city would avoid catastrophic flooding.

Wind-driven water was sloshing over the top of the Industrial Canal's floodwall, but city officials and the Army Corps of Engineers said they expected the levees, still only partially rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, would hold. The canal broke during Hurricane Betsy and Hurricane Katrina, flooding St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward.

"We are seeing some overtopping waves," said Col. Jeff Bedey, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' hurricane protection office. "We are cautiously optimistic and confident that we won't see catastrophic wall failure."

Of more immediate concern to authorities was a barge that broke loose from its moorings and crashed into two anchors scrapped ships. The was no damage to the canal.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Gustav hit around 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday near the Cocodrie, a low-lying community in Louisiana's Cajun country about 72 miles southwest of New Orleans. Forecasters once feared a storm that chased nearly 2 million from the coast would arrive as a devastating Category 4 with much more powerful winds.

While New Orleans avoided a direct hit, the storm could be devastating where it did strike. For most of the past half century, the bayou communities that thrived in the Barataria basin have watched their land literally disappear. A combination of factors — oil drilling, hurricanes, river levees, damming of rivers — have destroyed marshes and swamps that once flourished in this river delta.

Entire towns in the basin of the Mississippi delta have disappeared because of land loss. The rates of loss are among the highest in the world; erosion has left it with virtually no natural buffer.

"What Katrina didn't destroy in '05, it looks like Gustav could destroy in '08," said Ivor van Heerden, a hurricane expert with Louisiana State University.

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