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Hurricane Gustav
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Willie Bell, left, gets help from Baton Rouge evacuee Rudolph Davis, right, and Johnny Wilson with some minor repairs on his home Monday morning during a gap between the rains and wind. View photo »
Parkway Baptist Church member Akin Akinwale lines up cots Sunday afternoon in preperation for Gulf Coast evacuees fleeing Hurricane Gustav. View photo »
Natchez firefighters Eddie Hawkins and Clarence Hunter slide cases of bottled water like bowling balls down the floor of an 18-wheeler Wednesday afternoon. The water was distributed to residents who came by the Natchez Visitor Reception Center to get water and ice after Hurricane Gustav. View photo »
Natchez firefighter Ernest Owns lifts cases of water to be distributed Wednesday afternoon. View photo »
Augusta Smith pulls a couple of bags of ice out of the pile to be distributed to residents who came to the Natchez Visitor Recpetion Center Wednesday. View photo »
First Lady Marsha Barbour and Mayor Jake Middleton listen as Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour speaks after touring damage done in Natchez by Hurricane Gustav. View photo »
Above, W. A. Kendall and Co. workers Dennis Dampeer and Marlon Evans rest at the Johns Manville tent city after a long day of repairing downed power lines. View photo »
Bus driver José Gonzalez, from Tampa , Fla., passes time in his vehicle. Buses were contracted to transport workers between the Johns Manville tent city and the Wal-Mart staging site where vehicles and equipment were kept. View photo »
Clothing dries on the back doors of a W. A. Kendall and Company work truck as line men Johnathan Haynes and Mitch Harris fiddle around in the back of their work vehicle after a day of fixing electrical problems around Natchez Friday. Their company, one of many contracted by Entergy, is based out of Jackson while some crews came from as far as Kentucky. View photo »
Southern Electric employees Jessie Howard and Brad Collins work to repair a power line behind Parkway Baptist Church Thursday afternoon. View photo »
An Entergy truck speeds by as David H. Elliot, Inc, linemen repair a line on Liberty Road Thursday. Over 450 electrical workers have descended on Natchez to help restore power to the area. View photo »
CEO and president of Entergy Mississippi Haley Fisackerly discusses power outages with Sen. Roger Wicker Wednesday afternoon on Liberty Road. View photo »
Cars pile up along Canal Street Wednesday afternoon as many resident waited to pick up ice and water at the Natchez Visitor Reception Center. View photo »
Rayne Carlton, 10, wades through a few inches of water in his front yard on Airport Road in Concordia Parish Wednesday afternoon. Over 10 inches of rain fell on the Miss-Lou since Hurricane Gustav began sweeping the area Monday morning. View photo »
Natchez resident Fate Boxley waits to fill up her car with gas in a long line of cars at the Shell Station on U.S. 61 South. View photo »
Street lights glow in the distance on Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Natchez shortly before sunrise. while some of the street remains in darkness Wednesday morning. View photo »
Mike Lewis of Buffalo Services was the man of the hour Wednesday afternoon as he pumped gasoline into the tanks of the Go Mart on U.S. 61 South. Gas became a hot commodity after power was restored in many areas of the city. View photo »
Adams County Supervisor Darryl Grennell waves in a motorist Wednesday at the Natchez Visitor Reception Center when the Adams County Civil Defense and the MEMA issued water and ice to area residents. View photo »
Wal-Mart employee James Credit cleans the empty shelves in the Natchez Wal-Mart Supercenter Wednesday morning. The shelves were cleared of food that could not be refrigerated. View photo »
Motorists pass through a path that had to be cut through a large tree that fell across Martin Luther King Jr. Street Tuesday morning View photo »
A large tree rests atop of a car at Suzie B. West Apartments on Providence Road in Natchez. View photo »
Bricks littered Commerce Street Tuesday morning after Gustav’s winds pushed over the front of an abandoned building. View photo »
Sarah Salmon rescues some of her belongings from her house that was damaged by a fallen tree Monday evening. View photo »
Natchez resident Zack Lewis checks out Hurricane Gustav’s damage to a house on North Union Street Tuesday afternoon. View photo »
Natchez City Planner John Lewis looks at the water damage Tuesday in the Goerge Armstrong Library. View photo »
A portion of the hotel’s wall was ripped off during the storm Monday night. View photo »
A Natchez Police Department officer patrols Main Street in his vehicle Monday night after widespread power outages left the city in darkness. Downtown, a portion of a building collapsed and a roof blew off a Union Street house. View photo »
Motorists pass through a path that had to be cut through a large tree that fell across Martin Luther King Jr. Street Tuesday morning View photo »
It was almost a party-like atmosphere in the Eola Hotel lobby Tuesday as guests made the best of bad situation. Without air conditioning in the hotel rooms, guests spent their time talking with other guests. View photo »
A City of Natchez work crew removes a downed tree on John R. Junkin Drive. The tree fell late Monday afternoon stopping traffic for a while. View photo »
Kevin James covers the damage done to his sister's house with plastic after a tree fell on her roof Monday afternoon. View photo »
Storm damage from Hurricane Gustav downed a large tree and an electric pole on Dana Drive. View photo »
Evacuee Maxine Harris reads the newspaper at the Community Chapel Church shelter Monday. View photo »
The Wombles family from La Place, La., camps out at the Natchez Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot Monday morning. The family hopes to wait out the storm in Natchez and return home Monday night or Tuesday morning. View photo »
Houma resident James Trosclair waits out Hurricane Gustav at the Parkway Baptist Church evacuation shelter Monday morning. View photo »
American Medical Response emergency medical technicians eat breakfast at the Parkway Baptist Church evacuation shelter Monday morning. Many of the medical technicians traveled from Florida and other regional states to the command post at the church. View photo »
American Medical Response ambulances line up along the south side of Parkway Baptist Church. AMR is using the church as a command post. View photo »
Parkway Baptist Church evacuation shelter volunteers Tahnya Nations, Della Bradshaw and LaDonna Townsend lays out chicken fingers for lunch at the shelter. View photo »
Adams County Civil Defense director Stan Owens briefs area emergency personnel during a Mondaymorning briefing. View photo »
Radar images of Hurricane Gustav flicker on a lap top computer as area emergency officials meet Monday morning to discuss the storm. View photo »
