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People fill sandbags to prepare for Hurricane Nate in Moss Point, Miss., on Saturday, Oct. 7. Storm surge threatens many low-lying neighborhoods in city, which was heavily flooded during 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.

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NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Nate came ashore a sparsely populated area at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Saturday and pelted the central Gulf Coast with wind and rain as the fast-moving storm headed toward the Mississippi coast, where it was expected to make another landfall and threatened to inundate homes and businesses.

By Associated Press October 8, 2017