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A gazebo is blown over the Mississippi Gulf Coast welcome sign near the intersection of Hewes Avenue and U.S. 90 in Gulfport, Miss., Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, after
Hurricane Nate made landfall on the Gulf Coast.
(Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
A Weakened Nate Brings Flooding, Power Outages to Gulf Coast

By JEFF AMY left by a series of hurricanes pushed northward into The storm surge from the signs of widespread
Associated Press that hit the southern U.S. Alabama and toward Mississippi Sound littered damage in the city where
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — and Caribbean in recent Georgia with heavy rain. It Biloxi’s main beachfront Hurricane Katrina had
Hurricane Nate brought weeks. was a Category 1 hurricane highway with debris and leveled thousands of
a burst of flooding and Nate — the first hurricane to when it came ashore flooded a casino’s lobby beachfront homes and
power outages to the make landfall in Mississippi outside Biloxi early Sunday, and parking structure businesses.
U.S. Gulf Coast before since Katrina in 2005 — its second landfall after overnight. No storm-related deaths or
weakening rapidly Sunday, quickly lost strength, with initially hitting southeastern By dawn, however, Nate’s injuries were immediately
sparing the region the kind its winds diminishing to a Louisiana on Saturday receding floodwaters reported.
of catastrophic damage tropical depression as it evening. didn’t reveal any obvious Continued on Page 2