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Hurricane Gustav Approaches Save Email Print
Posted: 9:23 PM Aug 31, 2008
Last Updated: 9:23 PM Aug 31, 2008

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The streets of New Orleans are largely empty tonight. Police and National Guard troops stand guard after the largest evacuation in Louisiana history. The state's police commander thinks 90 percent of the population has fled the Louisiana coast, heeding warnings to get out ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Governor Bobby Jindal has issued one last plea to the roughly 100,000 people still left along the coast. The storm is expected to strike around midday Monday and the governor says it's not too late to leave. Some people who had planned to shelter in place, changed their minds, not willing to risk the worst. Louisiana and Mississippi temporarily changed traffic flow so all highway lanes led away from the coast and were packed bumper-to-bumper with cars. Stores and restaurants shut down, hotels closed and windows were boarded up. Thousands more people have left coastal areas in Alabama and flood-prone southeast Texas. Gustav was a Category Three storm with 115-mile-an-hour winds as it plowed its way across the Gulf Sunday but could gain strength before slamming ashore.

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WIFR Detailed Forecast
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy skies, a few periods of light snow. Accumulations generally less than an inch. High: 26°/FALLING PM

THURSDAY: Generous sunshine, temperatures slide a bit. High: 24°

FRIDAY: Increasing clouds, breezy from the SW, milder. Light rain or snow developing very late in the day or at night. Sleet at night too? High: 36°

SATURDAY: A few flurries early in the day, otherwise partly sunny, breezy, and significantly colder. High: 19°

SUNDAY: Plentiful sunshine, temps still a bit below normal. High: 25°

MONDAY: Partly cloudy, a flurry or two? High: 27°

TUESDAY: Mainly sunny, colder once again. High: 21°

METEOROLOGIST MARK HENDERSON