Galveston Residents: Rats, Raw Sewage, No-Excuses Curfew Await You

Ugly as the city's last week and immediate future may be, the grim predictions didn't seem to scare some of the 45,000 evacuated islanders from trying to get home, even though most of the island won't open back up until Wednesday......

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Hurricane Gustav breaks La.; 1 million lose power

1million lose power
The nearly 2 million people who left coastal Louisiana on a mandatory evacuation order watched TV coverage from shelters and hotel rooms hundreds of miles away, many of them wondering what kind of damage they would find when they were allowed to come back home.

Evacuation is still in effect

Evacuation is still in effect
In spite of rumors of the mandatory evacuation orders being lifted, officials say it is not true and people should evacuate as previously instructed.

GUSTAV WEAKENS TO A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE...CENTER APPROACHING

Gustav Weakens

Hurricane Hanna coming, warnings issued

Hurricane Hanna Forms
Warnings are now being issued in Jamaica.

A million people flee. Gustav approaches. Category 5.

More than a million people flee the Gulf Coast as Gustav approaches Category 5 status.
Gustav slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday while both Cubans and Americans scrambled to flee the storm as it roared toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans.

No shelter for those who stay in New Orleans -

People who choose to stay? No shelter
New forecasts Friday made it increasingly clear that New Orleans will get some kind of hit — direct or indirect form Hurricane Gustav— by early next week.

Time to go: New Orleans evacuation may start early Sunday: mayor

New Orleans evacuation may start early Sunday: mayor
City officials will order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans starting early on Sunday if Hurricane Gustav holds to its current course, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said on Saturday.

Category 4 Hurricane nears Cuba-

Hurricane Gustav nears Cuba as Category 4 storm
The eye of the storm was near the Isle of Youth, about 155 miles east of Cuba's western tip.