baton rouge: A lot of people in different area are panicking over Hurricane Gustav it seems. I am already excessively worried, but should I be? I'm trying to figure out just how bad it may be, and if I should be seriously worried due to living between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.|||It is really bad that you worry too much. I would suggest that you follow the news regularly and listen to what they have to say. Listen to local news or check the news online. Today they asked New Orleans residents to evacuate. So you should probably evacuate soon, but the psychological effect of being worried to much is not really good. So I would suggest that you remain calm and do what the locals say. # NEW: Hurricane warnings issued for parts of Gulf Coast # Gustav loses steam as it leaves Cuba # Mandatory evacuations set to begin 8 a.m. Sunday in New Orleans # Thousands evacuating Gulf Coast on buses, trains, planes http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/31鈥?/a> You can also follow the news online via several websites. CNN.Com usually gives good reports. Also wikipedia usually reports from different sources fast! Hurricane Gustav is the seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on the morning of August 25, about 260 miles (420 km) southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and rapidly strengthened into a tropical storm that afternoon and into a hurricane early on August 26. Later that day it made landfall near the Haitian town of Jacmel. 85 deaths have been attributed to Gustav as of August 30, 2008. It intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in less than 12 hours. Forecast: On August 30, it was predicted by NHC to strengthen as it entered the warm open water of the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, August 31, before making landfall in the Northern Gulf Coast of the United States on Monday September 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_G鈥?/a>|||Hurricanes season should end by now but if you are worried check the weather in your area. http://www.weather.gov/|||There isnt any hurricanes anywhere right now. I just looked. Hurricane Gustav was in late Aug 2008 Someone is kidding you Gustav was a really bad hurricane Called the mother of all hurricanes. I remember it and I dont live in Louisana This time people evacuated New Orleans, unlike H. Katrina. They dont rename a hurricane with the same name, so soon again. Several years will pass before this name comes up again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_G鈥?/a>|||Thousands evacuate New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav brings reminder of Katrina Thousands of people are preparing to evacuate New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Louisiana coast. The storm has killed at least 78 people in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It brings a painful reminder to the people of New Orleans, who on Friday marked the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. City officials have not yet issued a mandatory evacuation order but with memories of Katrina and its devastation still fresh, many already had decided to abandon the city, much of which lies below sea level. The US government's disaster relief chief said the hurricane is growing into a Category 5 storm. Forecasters at the centre described sustained winds of 145 mph with higher gusts. The Republican White House candidate John McCain said in an interview that his party may have to suspend its nominating convention next week because of the hurricane. The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) warned inhabitants of the Gulf coast to expect a storm surge of 15 to 30ft when the hurricane reaches land. Katrina flooded 80 per cent of the city and killed nearly 1,500 people after breaching protective levees in 2005. In New Orleans, bells rang through the city at 9.38am, the moment when the levees were overcome. However, the attention of its calm but tense citizens was more focused on the future than on the past. Three years after his administration was castigated for its slow response to the disaster, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security, arrived in New Orleans and said he was confident in its preparations. "We're well-positioned and we've got a good set of plans, and now we're waiting to put them into motion," he told Fox News. But officials warned that there are still gaps in the city's flood defences, particularly in the poorer areas that were the worst affected by Katrina. Oil prices rallied on Friday as the storm threatened to disrupt American production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips have already evacuated workers from their installations in the Gulf. Jamaican officials said the storm had destroyed homes, even ripping the roof from an emergency shelter, and caused serious damage to the country's banana industry. Gustav struck the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as a Category One hurricane. Most of the deaths were caused by floods and mudslides, many houses collapsing on their occupants. Officials in Haiti warned that the death toll could rise as rescuers reached more remote areas.|||Hmmm yeah Gustav is long gone...|||ALL YOU PEOPLE GUSTAV ALREADY HAPPENED IN 2008. THERE ARE NO HURRICANES HEADED FOR LOUISIANA. Hurricane season ended in October with no major hurricanes this (past) summer. Gustav hit Texas and was pretty nasty.