New Orleans Braces For Gustav
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NEW ORLEANS — On the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched yesterday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people, pets, and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.
Forecasters warned that Gustav could grow into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane in the next several days and hit somewhere along a swath of the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Texas — with New Orleans smack in the middle.
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