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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 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|thumb|Hurricane Gustav on September 1, 2008]] '''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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