Drivers rely on OnStar to evade Hurricane Gustav

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From left OnStar vice president of subscriber services Scott Kubicki senior systems analyst Jeff Joyner and business performance manager Mark Gibb monitor weather and traffic conditions related to Hurricane Gustav at the OnStar Command Center in Detr ...
From left, OnStar vice president of subscriber services Scott Kubicki, senior systems analyst Jeff Joyner, and business performance manager Mark Gibb monitor weather and traffic conditions related to Hurricane Gustav at the OnStar Command Center in Detroit Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. General Motors Corp. adds staff to its OnStar control centers to handle thousands of expected calls for help from people fleeing the storm. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)

(AP) -- For the most part, the callers were calm, patiently asking for the fastest path out of New Orleans or some other Gulf Coast city as Hurricane Gustav twisted its way to the northwest. They started calling General Motors Corp.'s OnStar service by the thousands early Saturday, and by Sunday, their numbers had grown to well over 3,000 per hour.


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