New Orleans Braces For Visit From Hurricane Gustav
On the eve of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, contractors and officials in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast are racing to prepare for a collision with Gustav.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hustling into the evening Aug. 28 to shore up a section on the western side of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal in New Orleans as Gustav careens through the Caribbean, keeping edgy folks from the Florida Panhandle to Galveston, Texas wondering about its next move.