Hurricane Gustav approaches Louisiana
Ed Rappaport Deputy Director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, provides the latest forecast for Hurricane Gustav on August 31, 2008. Gustav a category 3 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Louisiana , on September 1, 2008. (UPI Photo/Michael Bush)
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- New Orleans needs a shelter where the elderly and poor can be protected from another major hurricane without leaving the city, officials say.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The Louisiana National Guard will coordinate moving evacuees during the state's next mandatory hurricane evacuation, officials said.
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat under indictment on corruption charges, trailed a Republican newcomer Saturday in Louisiana's election.
PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The scuba-diving industry in Florida says the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was pushed into deeper water by Hurricane Gustav.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Officials in Louisiana say so many people there were left without electricity when Hurricane Gustav hit because of a weak power grid.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The death toll from four major storms hitting Haiti in August and September has reached 800 people, International Red Cross officials say.
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Hurricane Gustav produced some delayed fallout Monday with the resignation of Louisiana's Social Services secretary over handling of the weather crisis.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress will begin work on a measure to provide federal aid to victims Hurricane Ike, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
HOUSTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The arrival of Hurricane Ike has shut down nearly 98 percent of the United States' Gulf of Mexico oil production, Interior Department officials said.
HOUSTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ike's trek toward the Houston area Friday poses the second hurricane threat in two weeks to the U.S. oil industry, analysts said.
