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...levee, flooding the Lower Ninth Ward. Since then, the Corps has built 15-foot-high walls - which it calls "T-Walls" - made of concrete. Other points in the region vulnerable to flooding are St. Bernard Parish, just south and east of the Lower Ninth Ward, and Houma, near where Gustav landed...
...down the highway from New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain. You could barely see out the windows, the wind was so strong. Just a few minutes earlier, the branches of trees were barely moving. It's certainly a strong storm, but not nearly as powerful as folks feared. And so Gustav arrived with a somewhat diminished bang, the first bands striking just before midnight. For much of Sunday evening, the city, and region, had been bathed in the odd silence that usually precedes hurricanes. As the wind quickened, the street lights shook...
...however, the authorities don't seem to be concerned about Gustav itself, given how much it has diminished. But the authorities are still concerned about the surge of water Gustav will likely send into low-lying costal areas, where many residents apparently refused to leave. Water is already being reported surging in Louisiana's boot. The surge is also expected to send several feet of water into the west bank of New Orleans' suburbs...
There's also the political hazards of Gustav. At least one Democratic politician got himself into trouble trying to read divine intervention into the timing of Gustav's landfall. It was certainly remarkable, coming nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, and on the eve of the Republican National Convention's scheduled opening, which has been scrambled and diminised by the storm. Gustav's arrival was heralded with a kind of grandeur: the city's mayor, C. Ray Nagin, pronounced it "the storm of the century," a declaration that seems to have had remarkable success in a region that once stared...
...flooding. Never mind that the patch of land is barely a half-foot above ground. Perhaps the liveliest discussion came on the radio airwaves, where several callers cast their decision to stay as a battle of man versus nature. Meanwhile, residents of the seemingly flood-resistant Uptown neighborhood, defied Gustav from their porches, comfortable above the police officers patrolling below...