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Sighs of Relative Relief As Damage Is Limited
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 02, 2008 08:43am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Dana Hedgpeth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 2, 2008; Page A03
LOCKPORT, La., Sept. 1 -- For the past five days, officials canceled their vacations, told inmates to fill sandbags, stored fuel to run trucks and generators, and evacuated most of the 95,000 who live here.
Then they hunkered down in their command post, a cinder-block building off Highway 90 about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, and watched and waited. Weather forecasters said Lafourche Parish could bear the brunt of Hurricane Gustav as it moved into Louisiana, with winds, rains and possible storm surges of more than 20 feet. A blow of that force could have wiped out this community of fishermen, cooks and oil-rig operators.
But by late Monday afternoon, officials and some residents who had stayed to ride out the storm surveyed the damage and found that it wasn't as bad as predicted. |
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