>Katrina was a horrible huricane and complete polictical disaster too.
>What I find amazing is that so many people stick around for these storms. Hey if I was without a car and a hurricane was comming, I'd be walking down the highway with my thumb out before I'd try to ride out a storm like that!

You never know. When Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, Harry Truman (not that Harry Truman), refused to leave his home on the side of the mountain. His body was never found. Incredible.

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>>First of all, I think Gustav is a lousy name for a hurricane. Who thought this one up? Gustav sounds like a pianist or an architect, not a hurricane.
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>>Ill named or not, Gustav is bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico. Comparisons are being made to Katrina, which hit New Orleans almost exactly three years ago. As you may remember, Katrina was carefully watched as a potentially catastrophic hurricane as it steamed towards Florida. When it hit the Florida coast it was a bit of a fizzle, not doing that much damage by the standards of south Florida in hurricane season. Then it gained steam over the Gulf and bore down on New Orleans and the coastal Mississippi cities like Gulfport and Biloxi.
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>>By the time it got there the trackers knew it was going to be big. Tragically, not everyone heeded the word to get out. Some were not mobile. Some had lived through hurricanes before and thought it was same old, same old. Some were stubborn.
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>>Katrina hit the coast early in the morning of August 29, 2005. There was a lot of damage but it was not a catastrophic first blow. The city that embraces wildness as a way of life breathed a collective sigh of relief.
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>>Then the levees broke and all hell broke loose.