After Gustav, Louisiana begins process of recovering

Gustav did not do as much damage as Katrina did three years ago, but residents of New Orleans are still going to have to deal with devastating damage to their homes and property when they return.Many people...

Republican Convention Back for Primetime - President Bush Speaks Tonight

The Grand old Party is back in action this week, as a reduced hurricane gustav has cleared the way for the continuation of the Republican National Convention. Tonight current president Bush, who McCain has been...

The Real Difference Between Gustav and Katrina

 Katrina was the biggest natural disaster that ever hit the United States. Noone anticipated or was prepared for such damage. Besides being a smaller hurricane that did not hit New Orleans directly, Gustav...

Gustav down, Ike to go

Phrases deserving junking include "dodging a bullet."  Taking metaphorical liberty, does anybody assume a shooter has a single-shot gun?  At least three more Atlantic storms are either near the Gulf...

Gustav & New Orleans - Bloggers and Webcams Looking into the Eye of the Hurri...

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Republican Convention Begins with Arrests and Distractions

With Hurricane Gustav and Palin pregnancy updates defining the news agenda for the day, the opening of the Republican National Convention has, despite the distractions, been called to order. For real-time...

Online mashups map relief for Gustav victims

Some interesting new developments in the way the people are responding to Gustav."This map contains an aggregation from several user-contributed and official sources of shelters, evacuation centers, and weather...

Hurricane Gustav Domain Names worry Cyber Criminologists

In the face of natural disasters, even those far from ground zero can be sitting ducks. In more ways that one, Gustav is filling the shoes of its devastating forebear. As of yesterday, there were nearly 100 registered domain names related to Hurricane Gustav, potentially...

Pet evacuation efforts as Hurricane Gustav hits

Compared to the pet rescue disaster that happened after Katrina made landfall three years ago, Hurricane Gustav pet evacuation efforts are a lot more organized with mass pre-storm pet evacuations and pet-friendly...

Hurricane Gustav: Live Updates & Online Resources

The following is NowPublic's compendium of real-time updates, resources, and information on Hurricane Gustav, as of September 1, 2008. Our coverage is ongoing and these links will continue to be updated. If...

Oil price falls as Hurricane Gustav weakens

The price of oil has fallen to below $111 a barrel as Hurricane Gustav weakened on its approach to the US coastline. "A stronger dollar also helped reverse the course for oil prices, which had risen by nearly $3 to over $118 a barrel earlier in the session.Still,...

FEMA launches database for Gustav's missing

To deal with the number of missing people that may result from Gustav’s landfall, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has created a new locator system that allows displaced people submit their...

Anatomy of a hurricane

Hurricane season comes every June through November. Though Americans dread the storms, eastern Asia and many other areas of the world, including the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, depend on hurricanes to bring...

Haiti Death Toll Near 70, Mud Slides

" Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In Haiti, it has killed at least two people, but weakened to a tropical storm. Gustav''s winds fell to 95km/h (60mph), although experts...
 

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