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Track Hurricane Gustav’s path as it approaches landfall

By Steve Perry | 08.31.08 | 1:52 pm


You can click on the image above, or here, to visit the National Hurricane Center’s tracking map for Hurricane Gustav, which is currently on a path that will lead it to landfall on the Louisiana…

Three years ago: Bush and McCain take the cake while Katrina takes New Orleans

By Steve Perry | 08.31.08 | 1:28 pm


As Gustav bears down on the Louisiana coast, let’s pause to remember how John McCain and George W. Bush spent McCain’s 69th birthday on August 29, 2005, the day that Katrina struck Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Image…

Video: Gustav might give McCain, GOP excuse for keeping Bush away from the convention

By Steve Perry | 08.28.08 | 3:18 pm

As you can see below (via ThinkProgress), Fox News is reporting that George W. Bush may not be speaking in St. Paul on the opening day of the Republican convention Monday after all, owing to Tropical Storm Gustav, the Louisiana-bound…

Katrina the 2nd? Gustav threatens to strike New Orleans during RNC

By Tom Elko | 08.28.08 | 10:29 am

Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, forever changed the city of New Orleans and exposed federal emergency management as grossly negligent, another storm is currently on track to make landfall in Louisiana in the midst of…