Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, Cuba, and heads to New Orleans

The last people leaving by train out of New Orleans boarded a train bound for Memphis, TN at Union Station on August 31 before the expected arrival of the hurricane.
The last people leaving by train out of New Orleans boarded a train bound for Memphis, TN at Union Station on August 31 before the expected arrival of the hurricane.
(Globe Staff Photo / Essdras M. Suarez)