Isaac hits land with force, in test of post-Katrina levees

Storm surge pounds a levee in New Orleans. Photo from The New York Times

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Isaac hovered over the Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning, punishing southeast Louisiana with 80 mile per hour wind gusts, driving, horizontal rain and the threat of calamitous flooding. Forecasters said the rainfall may not let up for days.

The hurricane, which made its second landfall early Wednesday, was essentially stationary just off the Louisiana shore, according to the National Weather Service, bringing with it the heightened risk of tornadoes and flash flooding hundreds of miles inland from Louisiana, and across Mississippi and Alabama to Florida.

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5 Comments

  1. john charles
    August 29, 2012

    thank god for protecting our people and to those evil doers who wanted dominica to be destroy . all i say to them god is good and all the time god is good

    • anonymous2
      August 30, 2012

      The likelihood of hurricanes hitting DA is not very high due to the mountains.

  2. Chocolat
    August 29, 2012

    That is a Hurricane wi boy. They’re getting more dangerous every time around.

  3. PUSS
    August 29, 2012

    This looks like a Tsunami to me omg 8-O

  4. strange
    August 29, 2012

    Lord watch our ur people.

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