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...PAUL, Minn.—Delegates and Harvard affiliates at the Republican National Convention applauded the Republican leadership's decision to cancel the festivities of the first day out of respect to victims of Hurricane Gustav, which is threatening the Gulf Coast...
...Late Sunday, Jindal issued one last plea to the roughly 100,000 people still left on the coast: "If you've not evacuated, please do so. There are still a few hours left...
...Residents along the Louisiana Gulf Coast began to leave Friday. Preparations began a couple of days before that with residents boarding windows, buying generators, batteries and water, and filling up their cars with gas. Traffic mixed with evacuees and fans headed to the first Louisiana State University football game of the season started to back up on I-10 West toward Baton Rouge Friday evening. A drive that normally takes a little more than an hour took about two and a half hours...
...Over the weekend, Louisiana and Mississippi temporarily changed traffic flow so all highway lanes led away from the coast, and cars were packed bumper-to-bumper. Stores and restaurants shut down, hotels closed and windows were boarded up. Some who planned to stay changed their mind at the last second, not willing to risk the worst...
...late Sunday Col. Mike Edmondson, state police commander, said he believed that 90% of the population had fled the Louisiana coast. The exodus of 1.9 million people is the largest evacuation in state history, and thousands more had left from Mississippi, Alabama and flood-prone southeast Texas...