Water tops levees as Gustav makes Louisiana landfall

CNN
Monday 1st Sept

Hurricane Gustav swirled violently ashore Monday, turning lights out across the Gulf Coast and sending water over the tops of New Orleans’ levees, officials said.

In Biloxi, Mississippi, iReporter Kevin Wise, who lives two blocks from the beach, said Gustav had pushed the Gulf waters into the highway, about 100 yards from the normal shoreline.

“On the beach, it was blowing hard enough that you had to squat down to take a picture, it could pretty much throw you around,” he told CNN. Wise said he and his wife ignored mandatory evacuation orders for his area.

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At 11 a.m. CT, the center of Hurricane Gustav, a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph (177 kph), was about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south of New Orleans. Hurricane-force winds were extending 70 miles from the center.

Winds were sending whitecaps over levees in New Orleans, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported no major problems.

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