New Orleans Residents Returning Home After Gustav

There were fresh reminders that the 2008 hurricane season is far from over. Tropical Storm Hanna pounded flood-plagued Haiti before taking an expected turn north for the U.S. coast. Farther out to sea, Hurricane Ike reached Category 4 strength as it spun westward across the Atlantic and could arrive in the Bahamas on Sunday.

Tropical Storm Josephine was out there, too.

Melinda Deslatte reported from Baton Rouge. Associated Press writers Michael Kunzelman and Becky Bohrer in New Orleans, Deb Reichmann in Baton Rouge, Janet McConnaughey and Alan Sayre in Hammond, and Juanita Cousins in Montgomery, Ala. also contributed to this report.

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