Gustav: During / Aftermath Photos

[Guru]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080902/480/dc5f8abc21fe4fff9fb25432b8cac360/

This aerial photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows flooding from Hurricane Gustav in the Rigolets, in eastern New Orleans Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The Rigolets is one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain with the Gulf of Mexico and a key conduit of storm surge into the New Orleans area.
(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

[Guru]

Another:

[Guru]

Water splashes over the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal as wind and rain from Hurricane Gustav pounds New Orleans, Louisiana September 1, 2008.
(Sean Gardner/Reuters)

[Guru]

Dain Langley, and his girlfriend Pam Walling sit outside their home in Houma, La., with their dog on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. The pair decided to ride out Hurricane Gustav with their two dogs in the house, even though Houma was expected to be near the landfall of the hurricane's eye.
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

[Guru]

A sheriff's truck drives around downed power lines after Hurricane Gustav stormed through Monteguet, La., on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

* Monteguet is just South of Houma about 30 miles or so in the Bourg / Grand Cayou / Little Cayou area just North of the Cocodrie settlement on the coast/marsh.

[Guru]

One I really like:

Shane Stiltner sits with weapons as he guards against looters at the Barker GMC in Houma, Louisiana, as Hurricane Gustav passes through, September 1, 2008.
(Mark Wallheiser/Reuters)

[Guru]

Not nearly like Katrina or Rita but there were still casualties:

A tree fell on this home killing a 27-year-old man as Hurricane Gustav moved through the region Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 in Lafayette, La.
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

[Guru]

La. Gov. Jindal is wired tight fo sho. Him or Haley would have been good VP's if needed.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal meets with Department of Health and Hospitals Incident Commander Jamie Rogues, left, at the Medical Special Needs Shelter Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. The shelter, set up as a medical center for evacuees from Hurricane Gustav, has 200 patients and 132 caregivers.
(AP Photo/USA Today, Tim J. Mueller, Pool)

[Guru]

Barges on the Industrial Canal wash up on the dock as Hurricane Gustav strikes the Gulf Coast in New Orleans, Louisiana. With the US oil-refining industry heavily concentrated along the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline, a strategic sector of the economy is perennially vulnerable to the threat of mega-hurricanes.
(AFP/Getty Images/Stephen Morton)

[Guru]

9th Ward Levees hanging in there:

Floodwater from Hurricane Gustav overtops the Industrial Canal levee into the Upper Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. With the US oil-refining industry heavily concentrated along the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline, a strategic sector of the economy is perennially vulnerable to the threat of mega-hurricanes.
(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)

[Guru]

Flood water covers an industrial area after water flowed over the side of a levee on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Gustav pounded the US Gulf Coast Monday with ferocious rain and wind, but partially rebuilt levees in New Orleans appeared to be holding up three years after Katrina swamped the fabled jazz city.
(AFP/Jim Watson)
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[Guru]

Water fills a low area near the Eastside of the Industrial Canal as Hurricane Gustav came through afternoon Sept. 1, 2008, in New Orleans.
(AP Photo/Brian Lawdermilk)

[Guru]

Kimberly Manderville gets sprayed by water at a Pensacola, Fla. park Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 as Hurricane Gustav caused rough surf.
(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

[Guru]

The Harbor Shop bait shop at the Gulfport, Miss., Small Craft Harbor is surrounded by water Monday Sept. 1, 2008 as Hurricane Gustav comes ashore.
(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan via The Sun Herald

[Guru]

Power lines lie near homes as Hurricane Gustav storms through Raceland, La., on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

* Raceland is about 15 miles or so East of Houma, La.

[optimistik1]

Thanks Guru...great job!

This is a link to WLOX "Gustav" photo gallery

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?s=8930429

[Guru]

A truck drives down a flooded street past a gas station that was damaged by Hurricane Gustav, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in Franklin, La.
(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

* Franklin, La. is right near New Iberia, La. which is between Houma and Lafayette on Hwy. 90. A very old town just North of where you get Tabasco hot sauce at Avery Island.

[Guru]

Uh oh, here comes FEMA, and GW. That's ok, Jindal is sharp as a tack. FEMA won't be able to mess up what he has set up. I don't think.

[Guru]

Waves crash along the shoreline of Biloxi, Miss., as park bench washes up Monday Sept. 1, 2008, during a storm surge from hurricane Gustav.
(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

[Guru]

The bait house of Biloxi yacht Club is damaged from the heavy winds of hurricane Gustav in Biloxi, Miss., Monday Sept. 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

[Guru]

Wind blows water from flooded US Highway 90 in front of Hard Rock casino and hotel in Biloxi, Miss., Monday Sept.. 1, 200, as hurricane Gustav passes through the area.
(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

[Guru]

Hurricane Gustav winds pound the Mandeville, La. lakefront, Monday September 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, David Grunfeld) Mandatory Credit

* Mandeville is the first settlement, town, you see getting off the long bridge (not the Slidell bridge) over Pontchartrain from New Orleans to the North shore.

[Guru]

Another one I really like:

US Military only asks where do you need us to go.

A Louisiana National Guard medical unit moves through flooded street in New Orleans, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Hurricane Gustav is forcing waves over the levee and street flooding is resulting. The Claiborne Ave. bridge over the Industrial Canal can be seen in the background.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)

[bpitt]

I really like the dude guarding against looters, that dude rocks.

[Guru]

Have Gun / Will Travel : Palladin

[Hermione]

Thanks Guru. I still get weak in the knees at NO pics. Got the last of my family out of there in 2004. My dad used to be in a nursing home there and every hurricane season I stayed on edge. He's gone, and everybody is here, but it still makes me nauseated sometimes to think about it and see the pictures.

[TheCapitalist]

The Sun Herald photo gallery has some excellent photos also. At least 3 of Long Beach Harbor under water and the beached sailboats. Damn. I hope I have a slip after all this... At least I have a boat still. Small stuff... Don't sweat the small stuff...

http://www.sunherald.com/414/gallery/785708.html

[TheCapitalist]

Thanks Guru. I still get weak in the knees at NO pics. Got the last of my family out of there in 2004. My dad used to be in a nursing home there and every hurricane season I stayed on edge. He's gone, and everybody is here, but it still makes me nauseated sometimes to think about it and see the pictures.

I prayed N.O. would be okay. Did not want to watch that disaster!

Weak in the knees. Hmmmm...

[BassCatter]

Bout time that everybody realize it's time to NOT live in New Orleans!!!! The damn city elevation is below sea level. How much intelligence does it take to realize that it's not a good location to live in? I Cap, was hoping against you brother........The city of my birth needs to be abandoned, or made into the Venice Italy of the United States IMO.

[rollinthunder]

Black creek at Brooklyn today...
http://www.yourhattiesburg.com/Forums/picture.php?albumid=11&pictureid=64

[Fotno]

It'd be a hell of a good time to make a float trip.
It wouldn't take any time at all to get to Cameron Hole

[optimistik1]

Husband and I are talking about setting some limb lines...anybody know where some catawba trees are that aren't being used *grin*

[Fotno]

Mine are all gone.

[TheCapitalist]

I never want to see people suffer, BC. Besides that, the libs and dems would have made hay over it all over again. They never miss an opportunity.

[bpitt]

True dat.

[katzeyez]

What ever you do stay away from I59 S. Wugh! The traffic is terrible. I really wish I could teleport. That certainly would make things easier, and lower my monthly gas cost to boot.

[threekidspa]

It'd be a hell of a good time to make a float trip.
It wouldn't take any time at all to get to Cameron Hole

Might not be much room once you got there though :)

[Fotno]

We might end up in the Gulf.

[katzeyez]

You'd swiftly end up in the Gulf. As I crossed over Black Creek today, I thought man, what an easy float that would be, just a lil steering, and you'd be good to go.

[Hawkeye]

It'd be a hell of a good time to make a float trip.
It wouldn't take any time at all to get to Cameron Hole

Fotno, I put my john boat in Black Creek back in the 60's when water was up to the Hwy 49 bridge. It was a heck of alot of fun. I was able to motor across pastures that looked like big lakes with barb wire fences sticking up and up the side creeks that were never navigable before or since.

As for aftermath of Gustav, I lost quite a few pecans as I figured I would but there's still many on the tree. The wind blew my okra down and I had to top it. Its already sprouting out from the lower new growth and blooming so I should be back in okra production full swing next week.

Other than that, its just a soggy mess around here of hurricane supplies and extension cords, gas cans, generators, bottled water, etc. I'm just gonna leave everything in place until the Atlantic storms look played out. I'm wore out getting stuff out and then having to put it back in storage.

[Guru]

Traffic was pretty thick today coming down Hwy. 49 South from Jackson when I came to Hattiesburg. Not as many but a bunch of cars, etc headed back North when I came home this afternoon. Same Stone co. and Harrison, etc tags. Don't know how many they let in or if they changed their minds.