State of Louisiana - Hurricane Gustav's target

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.


Wind-driven water sloshed over the top of the Industrial Canal's flood wall, but city officials and the Army Corps of Engineers said they expected the levees, still only partially rebuilt after Katrina, would hold. The canal broke with disastrous effect during Katrina, submerging St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward.

Another natural calamity that we can't stop and only hope that everything will be fine when it's all over.


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