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Gustav hits Gulf Coast

Lorraine Carter was among the relative few who has not evacuated from New Orleans, heading home in the Upper 9th Ward as winds from Hurricane Gustav lash the city.

Lorraine Carter was among the relative few who has not evacuated from New Orleans, heading home in the Upper 9th Ward as winds from Hurricane Gustav lash the city.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

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The downgraded storm, now a Category 2, brings punishing winds and sheets of rain to the flood-prone Louisiana coast while veering away slightly from a mostly unpopulated New Orleans.

Hurricane Gustav

A team from the Weather Channel films from Canal Steet in the French Quarter in New Orleans as Gustav’s winds blow into the city.  (Matthew Hinton / AFP/Getty Images)

Still there

French Quarter resident Todd Browning walks through the driving rains on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.  (Erik S. Lesser / EPA)

Gustav hits the Gulf coast

A storm surge floods a pier as the outer bands of Hurricane Gustav hit Gulfport, Miss.  (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)

Gustav hits Gulf coast

A car is washed away by the storm surge on U.S. Highway 90 as the outer bands of Hurricane Gustav hit Gulfport, Miss.  (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)

Hurricane Gustav Hits U.S. Gulf Coast

Soldiers on hurricane duty for the Louisiana Army National Guard rest inside the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The convention center was where thousands of stranded Hurricane Katrina evacuees were taken in 2005.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Gustav hits the Gulf coast

Water breaks over a concrete barrier, the so-called I-wall, along the Industrial Canal as Hurricane Gustav arrives in New Orleans.  (Eric Gay / Associated Press)

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