Mississippi update …

Greg Flynn of Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday afternoon that the National Hurricane Center now says the storm surge at Waveland, on the Louisiana side of the state, reached 11 feet, below the earlier estimate of 15 feet. Flynn said the center said the storm surge at Pascagoula, in Jackson County on the other [...]

Looking for shelter?

Several area groups are providing shelter and help to victims of Hurricane Gustav. Here are some that have contacted djournal.com …
- The K-9 Training Center, located at 1807 Nell St. in Tupelo, will board dogs belonging to evacuees for free. Call Gary Dodd at (662) 401-9876 before taking animals there.
- Hope Church of Tupelo, 2094 [...]

Photo from Louisiana …

Thanks to Daily Journal News Editor Patsy Brumfield for passing this along. This is a midday Monday shot by Peachy Melancon, wife of U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, of their backyard In Napoleonville, which is in the Bayou Country of south Louisiana. Mrs. Melancon is a native of Clarksdale.
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More photos and news …

Water is pushed over the flood wall into the upper 9th Ward from the effect of Hurricane Gustav, in New Orleans, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

A tree was blown down on top of a house on William Harrison Drive in Biloxi, Mississippi on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 as Hurricane Gustav made landfall. [...]

Gustav weakens, closes in on Louisiana coastline

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writers
NEW ORLEANS – A weakened Hurricane Gustav closed in on flood-prone coastal Louisiana Monday, bringing punishing wind and sheets of rain. But the storm veered away from New Orleans, where only a few holdouts and those that refused to abandon Bourbon Street remained.

Bands of rain, wind from Gustav push into Miss.

By HOLBROOK MOHR
The Associated Press
GULFPORT, Miss. – Hurricane Gustav brought down tree limbs and flooded coastal roads as it slapped at Mississippi’s Gulf Coast on Monday.
A hurricane warning covered Mississippi’s three coastal counties, which also braced for possible flash flooding and tornadoes.

Hurricane Gustav photos from The Associated Press …

An abandoned vehicle sits in a parking lot near U.S. 90 in Gulfport, Miss., on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, as the outer bands of Gustav approaches. (AP Photo/Sun Herald, Gary Raskett)

A television reporter looks at storm surge on U.S. Highway 90 as the outer bands of hurricane Gustav hits Gulfport, Miss., Monday Sept. 1, [...]

Photos of Gustav …

Police patrol U.S. Highway 90 as storm surge moves towards the highway from the outer bands of hurricane Gustav in Gulfport, Miss., Monday Sept.. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
More coming soon …

Path of Gustav …

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