Sunday, September 2, 2012

Hurricane Isaac Targets New Orleans URGENT Overtops Levee Flooding Widespread Days after flooding and outages remain Soaks Gulf Coast Tests Levees weakens to tropical storm tops Louisiana levee | Video Plaquemines Parish has long history with disasters La. official will be breached amid Reporters Residents Dig In As Blasts Shore makes landfall in southeastern floodwaters top ordered evacuate Faithbased Groups Respond Aftermath residents rescued by boat from flooded homes floods an exposed piece of land being hit storms Dam intentional breachings due water released cut

Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain Much of Plaquemines Parish was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. Isaac Is Latest Blow to Swampy South Louisiana Plaquemines Parish, the marshy peninsula of southeastern Louisiana, was the first landing point of Hurricane Isaac and the scene of perhaps its most thorough destruction. 3 arrested in Plaquemines Parish for gun and drug possession Plaquemines Parish deputies arrested three Walker, La. residents for possessing drugs and guns. Crews check homes for more fatalities in Plaquemines Parish No other deaths from Hurricane Isaac had been reported as of Friday evening Isaac: Levees overtopped, residents stranded in Plaquemines Parish Hurricane Isaac made landfall at one of the worst possible points — along the Plaquemines Parish, where the levees were not updated as part of the $14.5 billion federal project that repaired levees around New Orleans. Water continues to flood over the levees, trapping residents who did not evacuate. Three arrested in two looting incidents in Plaquemines Parish One is being sought in one of the cases Plaquemines Parish residents grasp Isaac's devastation, face staggering undertaking of rebuilding 'Now I have nowhere,' flood victim says Isaac update from Plaquemines Parish "Currently there is no access to the following areas: Entire east bank and any areas south of Phillips66 on the west bank." Plaquemines Parish has long history with disasters BELLE CHASE, La. (AP) — Isaac brought severe flooding to southeastern Louisiana, hitting Plaquemines Parish particularly hard. Homes were inundated and dozens of people had to be rescued by boat after the storm pushed water over the top of a levee. Officials said they were going to puncture a hole in the levee, but they first had to wait for the winds to die down. Ever since the Mississippi ... Tensions run high in Braithwaite as residents return home after Hurricane Isaac On the first day that east bank Plaquemines Parish residents were allowed to access their homes since Hurricane Isaac's tumult, to survey the damage and see whether  anything was salvageable, tensions were high. Roxann Picou and Cheryl Taffaro, both...
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