August 31, 2008
Hurricane Gustav is one of the destructing storm that had hit the United States of America. It made landfall on the US Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center stated that Gustav had sustained winds at least 150 miles per hour and was moving Northwest at 15 miles per hour. According to the reports, the Hurricane was classified under the Category 4. Warnings have been posted from Eastern Texas all the way to Mississippi. They said that Gustav was stronger than the hurricane in 2005, the Hurricane Katrina which killed over 1,500 people in Louisiana but Hurricane Gustav did not have the same economic impact as Katrina. Gustav brought heavy rains after landfall and bringing it to the Mid-Western U.S. It had an estimated amounts of 1 to 3 inches of rains that would be experiencing in Missouri Northeastward into portions of Illinois, southeastern Wisconsin, southeastern Iowa, northwestern Indiana and much of Michigan. United States of America is so strong that is the reason why, they can survive everything that have happened to it, no matter how heavy those challenges are.
Reference
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav_batters_Caribbean,_threatens_US_Gulf_Coast
