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Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t ɑː v /) was the second most destructive hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.
Grand Isle inundated after the passage of Hurricane Isaac in August 2012. July 25–26, 2010 – The remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie produced a localized heavy rain event on July 25, with 8 to 9 in (200 to 230 mm) of rain falling in West Baton Rouge Parish. More than 100 homes were flooded and 20 bridges and roads were washed away.
As Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Louisiana coastline during Labor Day weekend 2008, the station was used to simulcast New Orleans' WDSU-TV (channel 6) for evacuees heading to Baton Rouge. The two stations had a similar carriage agreement during Hurricane Katrina three years earlier.
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav spanned eleven days, from August 25 to September 4, 2008. The tropical disturbance which eventually spawned Hurricane Gustav gathered on August 16, southwest of the Cape Verde islands, but was slow to develop as it trekked west across the Atlantic .
New Orleans residents all did better this hurricane, including the dogs and cats. What happened last time around during Katrina to animals and their owners inspired some great changes.
The original Pointe Coupee Parish included parts of present-day Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes. There were minor boundary adjustments with neighboring parishes up through 1852, when its boundaries stabilized. [6] In 2008, Pointe Coupee was one of the communities that suffered the most damage by Hurricane Gustav.
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Hurricane Gustav over Zachary, Louisiana. Date: 31 August 2008, 18:50 ... Hurricane Gustav: Author: Christopher Barnette from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of ...