Powerful winds lashed the largely deserted Louisiana coast early Monday as Hurricane Gustav neared landfall west of New Orleans and the few remaining in the city nervously watched levees only partly reinforced in the three years since Katrina.
Those who heeded days of warnings to get out watched from shelters and hotel rooms hundreds of miles away, praying the powerful Category 3 storm and its 115-mph winds would pass without the same deadly toll.
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