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[[Image:Hurricane Gustav.gif|right|300px]] '''Hurricane Gustav''' is a major [[hurricane]] that formed August 25, 2008 near Port-au-Prince, [[Haiti]], and later hit the [[Caribbean]]. Although it was a category 3 hurricane it downgraded to a category 1 on September 1st when it hit the [[United States]] Gulf Coast states. It is estimated that it has resulted in the deaths of 96 people in Haiti, the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Jamaica]], [[Cuba]] and the United States. Mandatory evacuation orders of 1.9 million people took place in the state of [[Louisiana]] and 200,000 people in [[New Orleans]] alone. Louisiana governor [[Bobby Jindal]] declared a state of emergency, activating between 3,000 and 8,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard. Evacuations along the [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]] Gulf Coast also took place. The University of Southern Mississippi and Alcorn State University will be closed until September 2nd. The governments response has been compared to the response to the 2005 [[Hurricane Katrina]], with Governor Jindal saying, "our state is better prepared that it has been before."<ref>http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/08/gov_bobby_jindal_declares_pres.html</ref>

[[Image:Hurricane Gustav.gif|right|300px]] '''Hurricane Gustav''' is a major [[hurricane]] that formed August 25, 2008 near Port-au-Prince, [[Haiti]], and later hit the [[Caribbean]]. Although it was a category 3 hurricane it downgraded to a category 1 on September 1st when it hit the [[United States]] Gulf Coast states. It is estimated that it has resulted in the deaths of 96 people in Haiti, the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Jamaica]], [[Cuba]] and the United States. Mandatory evacuation orders of 1.9 million people took place in the state of [[Louisiana]] and 200,000 people in [[New Orleans]] alone. Louisiana governor [[Bobby Jindal]] declared a state of emergency, activating between 3,000 and 8,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard. Evacuations along the [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]] Gulf Coast also took place. The governments response has been compared to the response to the 2005 [[Hurricane Katrina]], with Governor Jindal saying, "our state is better prepared that it has been before."<ref>http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/08/gov_bobby_jindal_declares_pres.html</ref>

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