Monday, September 3, 2012

Hurricane Isaac Targets New Orleans URGENT Overtops Levee Flooding Widespread Days after passes 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

Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Much of Plaquemines Parish southeast of New Orleans 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. Residents of southern Plaquemines Parish make use of police escorts out of the area Flooding in the middle of the parish has blocked residents farther south from being able to drive out on their own Days after Isaac passes, flooding and outages remain NEW ORLEANS -- Much of Plaquemines Parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday, Sept. 2, and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still had no power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. Post-Isaac, flooding and outages remain NEW ORLEANS — 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. Effects of Isaac linger on Much of Plaquemines Parish in southern Louisiana is still covered with floodwater and more than 200,000 people across the state are without power, five days after Hurricane Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. Police begin escorts back into flooded Plaquemines Residents, business owners and workers will be able to return to south Plaquemines Parish on the west bank with a police escort beginning on Monday, parish officials said.  Flooding, outages left after Isaac NEW ORLEANS - Much of Plaquemines Parish was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didnt have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with f... 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. 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. 3 arrested in Plaquemines Parish for gun and drug possession Plaquemines Parish deputies arrested three Walker, La. residents for possessing drugs and guns.
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