Hurricane Isaac Targets New Orleans URGENT Overtops Levee Flooding Widespread Soaks Gulf Coast and Tests Levees weakens to tropical storm tops Louisiana levee | Video Plaquemines Parish has long history with disasters La. official will be breached amid flooding Reporters Residents Dig In As Blasts Shore floodwaters top ordered evacuate makes landfall in southeastern residents rescued by boat from flooded homes floods an exposed piece of land being hit storms leaves stranded beleaguers rain forcing scores rescues Slowmoving region Floodwaters overtop

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 ... Plaquemines Parish gets much of Isaac's fury Kim Duplantier's three-story colonial plantation-style home survived Hurricane Katrina, albeit with 3 feet of unwelcome water on the bottom floor. Isaac's storm surge tops La. Levee Tropical Storm Isaac, downgraded from a hurricane about 19 hours after landfall, drove water over a levee in a lightly populated part of Plaquemines Parish. Plaquemines Parish plans levee cut amid Isaac troubles In Isaac, the residents of Plaquemines Parish are battling an adversary some fear they may have underestimated, even as it weakens to a tropical storm. Disasters familiar to hard-hit Plaquemines Parish As water lapped over a levee, officials rushed to evacuate more than 100 nursing home residents from Plaquemines Parish, an area with a reputation for weathering storms and perhaps the hardest place hit by Isaac. In this... Isaac weakens to tropical storm NEW ORLEANS -- Isaac, a vast storm that tore through southeastern Louisiana on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm after pushing floodwaters over a levee in marshy Plaquemines Parish and forcing the dramatic rescue of dozens of stranded residents. Plaquemines Parish President: Damage Is Just As Bad As Katrina One man said he and his family retreated to the attic of his home because the water had reached the top of the door frame. Hurricane Isaac flooding in Plaquemines Parish prompts major rescue effort Parish President Billy Nungesser said he wants to cut a hole in the Mississippi River levee to drain the Braithwaite area Levees in New Orleans to be breached to relieve pressure from Isaac A state official says the levee in southeast Louisiana's Isaac-flooded Plaquemines Parish will be br Hurricane Isaac rescues in Plaquemines Parish so far thanks to Jesse Shaffer and son Two of the men responsible for many of the hurricane Isaac rescue efforts thus far are Jesse Shaffer, 25 of Braithwaite, his father, Jesse Schaffer Sr., 53. The younger Shaffer says he has a Woodlawn firefighter aboard his boat and that his father also has someone helping him.
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