what is time zone in new orleans?
Central Time Zone
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 Many New Orleans residents took precautions to secure their homes and prepare for possible evacuation on Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th . On August 27 the state of Louisiana was declared an emergency area by the Federal Government , and by mid morning of that day , many local gas stations which were not yet out of gas had long lines . Nagin first called for a voluntary evacuation of the city at 5 : 00 p.m. on August 27 and subsequently ordered a citywide mandatory evacuation at 9 : 30 a.m. on August 28 , the first such order in the city 's history . In a live news conference , Mayor Nagin predicted that , " the storm surge most likely will topple our levee system " , and warned that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico would be shut down . 

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 All local television stations were disrupted . Local television stations , and newspapers , moved quickly to sister locations in nearby cities . New Orleans CBS @-@ affiliate WWL @-@ TV was the only local station to remain on the air during and after the storm , broadcasting from Baton Rouge . Broadcasting and publishing on the Internet became an important means of distributing information to evacuees and the rest of the world , with news networks citing blogs like Interdictor and Gulfsails for reports of what was happening in the city . Amateur radio provided tactical and emergency communications and handled health @-@ and @-@ welfare enquiries . By September 4 , a temporary communications hub was set up at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Orleans . 

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 On August 28 , at 10 : 00 a.m. CDT , the National Weather Service ( NWS ) field office in New Orleans issued a bulletin predicting catastrophic damage to New Orleans and the surrounding region . Anticipated effects included , at the very least , the partial destruction of half of the well @-@ constructed houses in the city , severe damage to most industrial buildings , rendering them inoperable , the " total destruction " of all wood @-@ framed low @-@ rise apartment buildings , all windows blowing out in high @-@ rise office buildings , and the creation of a huge debris field of trees , telephone poles , cars , and collapsed buildings . Lack of clean water was predicted to " make human suffering incredible by modern standards . " 

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 The term should not be confused with " after noon " ( two separate words ) , which is a translation of the Latin post meridiem ( p.m. ) , meaning a time between 12 : 00 midday and 12 : 00 midnight . 

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