{"id":2357,"date":"2008-08-29T21:09:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T21:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:22:03","slug":"6540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/08\/29\/6540\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Gustav Keeps Covenanters Guessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LA (August 29, 2008) \u2013 Leaders of reconstruction work in this area are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Gustav, which threatens residents almost three years to the day of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cThe target right now is exactly where we\u2019re working,\u201d said Don Steadman, missions pastor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillcrestcovenant.org\/s\/266\/splash.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Hillcrest Covenant Church<\/a> of Prairie Village, Kansas. \u201cI was thinking \u2018Oh, Great!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Hurricane Center is forecasting that Gustav could strike the Louisiana coast early Tuesday morning and could evolve into a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 115 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The path of hurricanes has been notoriously difficult to predict, and Gustav has been no exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to batten down the hatches and see what happens,\u201d said Michael Gromer, a member of Hillcrest Covenant who has coordinated the work of thousands of Covenanters here. \u201cWhere we have our equipment seems to be OK for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents are getting \u201cantsy,\u201d Gromer says. \u201cThe good side of what happened (in 2005) is they\u2019re better prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plaquemines Parish President William Nungesser has signed a declaration of emergency for the parish and warned that evacuation could begin as early as Saturday. A state of emergency also was declared in neighboring Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Current computer models also indicate that Gustav could strike Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Hillcrest first began its work following Katrina. \u201cWe\u2019ll just have to see,\u201d Gromer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2357&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LA (August 29, 2008) \u2013 Leaders of reconstruction work in this area are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Gustav, which threatens residents almost three years to the day of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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