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Meet Hurricane Gustav

Consider this: Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi area as a Category 3 storm, and the storm surge was 25 feet at worst. If Hurricane Gustav maintains its projected path, it will make landfall as a Category 4 or 5, more powerful than Katrina.

Mayor Ray Nagin has dubbed Gustav "the mother of all storms." Jefferson Parish officials had only three words of advice at a news conference: "Get out now!"

-http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/30/bts.new.orleans/index.html