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A Hurricane Warning remains in effect for the Cuban provinces of Pinar del Rio, la Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Isla de Juventud, Matanzas, and Cienfuegos. Preparations to protect life and property in the Hurricane Warning area should have already been completed.

A Hurricane Watch remains in effect for the northern gulf coast from east of High Island, Texas eastward to the Alabama-Florida border, including the City of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. A Hurricane Watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 36 hours. Hurricane Warnings will likely be required for parts of this area Sunday morning.

At 10 p.m., the government of Cuba has discontinued the Tropical Storm Warning for the provinces of Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, and Camaguey. A Hurricane Watch and a Tropical Storm Warning remain in effect for the central Cuban province of Villa Clara.

The likely path of Gustav will take it through the heart of the gulf's major oil and gas fields early in the week with serious impact beginning Sunday night or early Monday. Production platforms, shut and evacuated ahead of Gustav, will be threatened by the potentially devastating blows of Category 3 winds and monstrous waves. Platforms off Louisiana along with Mississippi and eastern Texas will suffer the greatest impact from this severe storm.


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JUST REMEMBERING HURRICANE KATRINA THAT DEVISTATED THE SOUTHER LOUISIANA AREA WITH OIL SPILLS.
THEN, THE REPUGLICAN PARTY SAID THAT NOT A DROP WAS SPILLED.
BUNCH OF FREAKING LYING IDIOTS !

Now that Gustav has entered the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, it will have hundreds of miles of exceptionally warm sea between it and the Gulf Coast. Water temperatures along the path will be 84 to 88 degrees, which will help to sustain Category 4 or even Category 5 status before landfall Monday and Monday night.

It is the heat stored in warm tropical seas that ultimately powers hurricane winds. And it is the water itself, first evaporating from the sea surface, then condensing as towering rain clouds within the core of the storm, that actually transmits the energy from sea to atmosphere.

GOES Infrared image Hurricane GUSTAV
New Orleans Louisiana
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I am here in New Orleans waiting for the storm.
Who said theres no GLOBAL WARMING ?

THis is possibly the WORST HURRICANE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS !

i will keep posting images and animations of GOES satellites.
Hopefully i CAN take pictures and video.
I will be in EJ hospital just outside of New Orleans
(my mother is there)
wish me good luck yall !!!

This is the day Hurrican Katrina hit New Orleans.
I see how important it was to John McCain and GWB... -

President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain's 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President's arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage. White House photo by Paul Morse

From the page: "The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that it wasn't a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities and pork-barrel politics. Katrina was not the Category 5 killer the Big Easy had always feared; it was a Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans, where it was at worst a weak 2. The city's defenses should have withstood its surges, and if they had we never would have seen the squalor in the Superdome, the desperation on the rooftops, the shocking tableau of the Mardi Gras city underwater for weeks. We never would have heard the comment "Heckuva job, Brownie." The Federal Emergency Management Agency (fema) was the scapegoat, but the real culprit was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which bungled the levees that formed the city's man-made defenses and ravaged the wetlands that once formed its natural defenses. Americans were outraged by the government's response, but they still haven't come to grips with the government's responsibility for the catastrophe.

They should. Two years after Katrina, the effort to protect coastal Louisiana from storms and restore its vanishing wetlands has become one of the biggest government extravaganzas since the moon missionâ€"and the Army Corps is running the show, with more money and power than ever. Many of the same coastal scientists and engineers who sounded alarms about the vulnerability of New Orleans long before Katrina are warning that the Army Corps is poised to repeat its mistakesâ€"and extend them along the entire Louisiana coast. If you liked Katrina, they say, you'll love what's coming next."
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