The city lights all appear on as Tropical Storm Isaac nears the Gulf Coast in taken just after midnight on August 28. It was a different story last night, after Isaac and hovered near land. Its 80 mile-per-hour winds and torrential rains left 520,000 people in Lousiana without power, according to .
The storm, in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has been bobbing, weaving, and then sitting along Louisiana's coast. It moves and then stops, as if trying to test the installed by the Army Corp of Engineers after Katrina by throwing up storm surges and wind from different angles in concentrated bursts.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami to pass over Lousiana today and tomorrow before moving over Arkansas.
The worst damage in the United States has occurred in , which had a nearby levee breached by storm surge earlier today, on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall.
“On the east bank right now, we have reports of people on
their roofs and attics and 12 to 14 foot (3.6-4.2 meters) of
water (in their homes),” Plaquemines Parish President . “This storm has delivered more of a punch than people
thought.”
—Joe Spring