Waco area under wind advisory
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory until 6 pm for all of North Texas, including Waco and surrounding counties. Winds from the north to northwest of 25 to 30 mph are expected, with stronger gusts during daylight hours.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Gustav holds steady at Category 3
GUSTAV
The news is better for New Orleans, although I hesitate to pronounce anything like an all-clear. Hurricane Gustav has strengthened only slightly and is forecast to be a “mere” major hurricane, a Category Three, instead of a monster Category Four, when it strikes central Louisiana tomorrow.
This is important because the levees are designed to withstand Category Three winds, up to 130 mph, but not up-to-155-mph Cat Four winds. Further, the area of even Category One hurricane-force winds around the center is not expected to quite reach New Orleans.
I’m still worried. Three years ago I wrote a headline for the Trib front page about New Orleans dodging a bullet — then found out, half an hour after I got home, that the levees had broken…
There’s another local angle, by the way: a fairly good chance the remains of Gustav will be paying us a visit midweek, though Waco isn’t expected to get as much rain from it as points farther east.
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Waco VA receives Louisiana patients as Hurricane Gustav approaches
A group of 71 residential care patients from Lake Charles, La., arrived at he Waco VA Medical Center about 4 p.m. today as Hurricane Gustav approached the Gulf Coast.
The patients from Chennault Place were under an evacuation order and traveled to Waco in two buses with eight Chennault Place caregivers, according to VA spokesperson Nelia Schrum.
After receiving the call for help Saturday, the Waco VA Medical Center reopened Building 91 and began preparations for the patients, Schrum said in a press release. The VA has worked closely with the facility to ensure that the appropriate medications are available. Sixty-six of the patients are veterans.
Chennault Place patients were evacuated to the Waco VA during Hurricane Rita.
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Cuba trek weakens Gustav
GUSTAV
Hurricane Gustav’s transit of Cuba yesterday took more than expected out of the storm, now on the borderline between Category Two and Category Three. As the Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger says, the next several hours will tell the tale — now is when the storm is passing through some of the warmest waters in the Gulf, and between there and landfall are some of the coldest. If Gustav reintensifies, it should happen now rather than later.
The forecast track still brings Gustav perilously close to New Orleans, where Mayor Ray Nagin has ordered a mandatory evacuation.
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