Frog Carlos carries litter away from what used to be his bar in Houma, Louisiana Sept. 2, 2008 after Hurricane Gustav made landfall to the area. Workers armed with rakes and brooms fanned out across New Orleans on Tuesday to clean up after Hurricane Gustav but officials told hundreds of thousands of evacuees to stay away a bit longer. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Gustav may cost $10b in insurance

    BEIJING, Sept. 3 -- Hurricane Gustav may trigger insurance claims as high as 10 billion U.S. dollars after lashing Louisiana, according to firms that specialize in catastrophe estimates, making it potentially the fourth-highest total for a U.S. storm.

    The hurricane lost power as it headed for shore, on Monday, keeping insured losses on land between 3 billion dollars and 7 billion dollars and oil-drilling damage at 1 billion dollars to 3 billion dollars, according to estimates from Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions Inc. That's less than Katrina's record 41.1 billion dollars in 2005. 

Emergency officials: Gustav causes no casualty yet in U.S. gulf coast 

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- No reported casualty has been caused by Hurricane Gustav, which is sweeping the U.S. Gulf coast region, including New Orleans, Louisiana, where about 1,600 people died after Katrina Hurricane hit in 2005, emergency officials said Monday.

    Roaring through New Orleans during the day, a weakened Gustav delivered a milder-than-expected blow to the city that has prepared for its landfall for days.

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