The mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin has ordered the city's residents to evacuate on Sunday in the face of Hurricane Gustav.
Nagin described Gustav, which has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane, as "the mother of all storms" New Orleans told to flee Gustav ...
Cuba, US nervous as Gustav approaches ...
Gustav claims nearly 70 lives in the Caribbean ...
US coast prepares for hurricane ... and urged everybody to comply with the evacuation demand. The evacuation order is the first in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city three years ago. Meanwhile Gustav has moved into the Gulf of Mexico after tearing through western Cuba with winds of up to 150 miles per hour. The hurricane killed over 80 people as it traversed the Caribbean. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency expects Gustav to make landfall on the Gulf of Mexico coast as early as Monday.
(Deutsche Welle)
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