AFP: New Orleans under flood threat as Gustav tears into US coast

AFP: New Orleans under flood threat as Gustav tears into US coast: "New Orleans under flood threat as Gustav tears into US coast

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) — Ferocious rain and wind gusts unleashed by Hurricane Gustav pushed water cascading over protective works in New Orleans Monday three years after Katrina swamped the fabled jazz city.

Wave surges washed over a levee wall lining a portion of the city's Ninth Ward -- ground zero of the disaster in 2005 -- and water had reached as high as road signs around the Industrial Canal in the ward's north."