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Louisiana's social services chief has resigned amid heavy criticism from the governor over her department's response to Hurricane Gustav.
Debris piled across medians, drivers passed cautiously under dark traffic lights and at least a few residents camped in front yards to avoid the sweltering heat of houses where power hadn't been restored Wednesday.
Hurricane Gustav caused an estimated $372 million in damage to Louisiana crops, flattening fields and dumping as many as 20 inches of rain, agriculture officials said Tuesday.
A single scrap metal company was responsible for about 70 barges and ships that floated loose in a major New Orleans canal during Hurricane Gustav, with at least a few threatening floodwalls and a bridge, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Two prominent Cuban dissidents have asked U.S. President George W. Bush to temporarily loosen restrictions on travel and sending money to the communist-run island to help tens of thousands left homeless by Hurricane Gustav.
After fleeing Hurricane Gustav, Terri Johnson wasn't just worried about her New Orleans home — she wondered how she was going to celebrate her son's first birthday.
They worried about their homes, their pets, the cities and towns they temporarily fled — or refused to leave behind. One directed traffic, another distributed supplies, a third got to work cleaning up from the high waters that surrounded his neighbors' homes.
If Hurricane Katrina was one big lesson in government bungling, Gustav has been an open-book test of whether the politicians learned anything from the disaster.
For many New Orleans Saints veterans, Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. Comparatively, Gustav was a minor inconvenience.
Individuals and businesses located in areas of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Gustav will get more time to pay their taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday.
LSU postponed its football game against Troy after Hurricane Gustav damaged Tiger Stadium and battered Louisiana's capital city far worse than anticipated.
Railroad operator CSX says it is rerouting some traffic due to damage to some of its tracks from Hurricane Gustav.
Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government.
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, at least one industry got a lift: recreational vehicle makers, who benefited from the more than $1 billion spent on travel trailers and mobile homes to house displaced residents.
A couple who fled the New Orleans area in advance of Hurricane Gustav will have to return home without their 7-month-old daughter, who died of a rare genetic disorder after becoming stricken at an amusement park.
With his city spared from major damage, and his husky body surpassing the edges of a narrow cot, Eddie Brown had come to believe Gustav was no longer the villain in this hurricane story: It was this rusted and vacant Sam's warehouse brimming with 3,000 evacuees.
Many of the illegal immigrants who have been rebuilding New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina stayed behind when Gustav struck because they were afraid of being arrested if they boarded the buses and trains arranged by emergency officials.
Power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav have forced state officials to transport scores of patients from hospitals and other medical facilities for fear they couldn't survive long without air conditioning.
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans three years ago, celebrities reacted with a mix of grief, outrage and generosity. All-star telethons raised millions for storm victims, Kanye West and others derided the government's response — even Sean Penn went to the region to personally assist in rescue efforts.
City and state officials tried to hold them off, but New Orleans residents would have none of it. After Hurricane Gustav brushed by the city, they wanted back in, and now.
Three years ago, corpses lay rotting in the streets outside the Morial Convention Center. It was a scene so chaotic and depraved, even the police dared not venture inside.
Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee.
Waves crashed high against flood walls Monday and New Orleans' rebuilt levee system survived its first hurricane in three years, but Gustav exposed weaknesses the Army Corps of Engineers won't plug any time soon.
Here's a comparison of Hurricanes Gustav and Katrina:
Those who have moved back to New Orleans in the three years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city are likely to have higher incomes and more education than people who haven't come back, demographic data shows.
Hurricane season blows away recordsThe 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records in the United States and Cuba.
39 Reasons to Go to the Caribbean This WinterTHIS has not been a great year so far for the Caribbean tourism industry. Seven named hurricanes have hit the region this fall, with Gustav and Omar wreaking the most damage. An earthquake registering 6.1 rocked parts of Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Any football player will tell you that seasons aren't won with Hail Marys. Games maybe, seasons never, but that is exactly the game McCain has been playing.
Asheville, NC is Out of GasThe city of Asheville, North Carolina and surrounding towns are so short on gas that residents must wait over an hour to fill their tanks, reports the Asheville Citizen-Times.
McCain and Obama different on style as well as substance"It's about their leadership styles," said Stanley A. Renshon, a scholar of the presidency who is also a psychiatrist. "McCain is a man of trying to do things. Obama is a man who tends to act cautiously and prudently. . . .
Prosecutors Say Company Damaged Roofs in Hail Scam - Associated Press © 2008A florida-based company, CPM, with an office in Indiana is accused of damaging the roofs and siding they were offering to inspect for free following an Indiana hail storm. Employees describe getting instructions on how to vandalize the properties. Heads-up Ike victims.
Cities board hundreds of pets after Gustav, IkeHurricane Ike was about as mighty and destructive as they come, but it couldn't break the bond between Nora Smallwood and her two dogs.
Watching walking leaves, across the street to windows gaze Counting seconds, branching to their home unsaved Wind on windows, pushing strong to get inside Holding back the water, that's filling up my eyes.
The price McCain paysWith the selection of Sarah Palin, McCain completes the job of defusing the enmity (and forgoing the honor) he earned in 2000, when he condemned Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "agents of intolerance."
Some 300,000 Haitian Children Impacted By Back-To-Back HurricanesThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today that 650,000 people - some 300,000 of them children - have been impacted by back-to-back hurricanes that have recently battered Haiti, warning that ruined infrastructure has impeded efforts to deliver relief to those in need.
U.S. offers aid to hurricane-blasted CubaThe U.S.� has offered Cuba in emergency aid for the victims of Hurricane Gustav and is willing to send far more if a U.S.-approved disaster assessment team is allowed in for assessment.
Oil at $80 a Barrel?With energy prices falling despite Hurricane Gustav, traders are talking about the end of a speculative bubble.
The Storm Cloud That Hangs over John McCainMcCain voted repeatedly against a Senate investigation into what went wrong during Katrina.
Why Disasters Are Getting Worse - TIMEIt is tempting to look at the line-up of storms in the Atlantic (Hanna, Ike, Josephine) and, in the name of everything green, blame climate change for this state of affairs.
Relief Convoy Arrives at the Gulf CoastHurricane Gustav began pounding the Louisiana coastline Monday with high winds and heavy rain.
If you go to Barack Obama's website, you will see an immediate page which sends you directly to places to make a donation.
As Hurricane Gustav began to bear down on the Gulf Coast, both campaigns made strong efforts to raise money for those directly affected by the storm.
TV news is all about theatrics, and nowhere is this more prevalent than in hurricane coverage, with reporters trying to do something that looks really dangerous, when they're usually never in any danger at all.
Scarborough rips Bush for using Gustav to demand more offshore drilling: 'Just stop!'»This morning, President Bush discussed Hurricane Gustav, using the occasion to push for more offshore drilling:
Gustav revives question: Is New Orleans worth it? Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back to life after the devastating 2005 storm season was worth it.
Caution urged as Gustav weakensHurricane Gustav is moving inland from the US Gulf coast after the worst of the storm missed New Orleans - the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Gustav, which brought torrential rain, has now weakened to a tropical storm.
(Watch) 'Hookers and Blow' at RNC Lobby PartyThe band plays on in Minnesota as hurricane threatens Americans in Louisiana.... Watch the video clip See more irresistible headlines
Republicans, Hookers and Blow! Parties rage as Gustav does damageABC News reports that Republican nominee, Sen. McCain's call for his party to heed to his campaign slogan "Country First" went widely unacknowledged.
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