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Gulf Coast residents flee ahead of powerful Gustav
whirlwind gustav charged across the gulf of mexico on sunday as residents fled new orleans and the citizen guard prepared to patrol evacuated neighborhoods in a city peacefulness recovering three years after katrina.
gustav dropped from a category 4 to a grouping 3 explode overnight, but forecasters warned it could procure strength from the gulf’s warm waters before making landfall as early as monday.
long in advance of mayor ray nagin’s mandatory evacuation degree took effect sunday morning for the city’s vulnerable west bank, residents were already streaming out of new orleans and other communities along the gulf coast. bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in nearly every course out of new orleans, and on bourbon street, where the party evidently never ends, only stragglers toting luggage were sporadically seen on the sidewalks.
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