-
Star Tribune
| 10 months ago
Floodwater lingered in Plaquemines Parish, more than 240,000 electricity customers sweltered without power and officials north of Lake Pontchartrain kept a wary eye on waterways swollen by Hurricane Isaac. The storm made landfall Tuesday, but...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Hurricane Isaac is long gone from south Louisiana, but the flood threat continues. A mandatory evacuation order was issued Saturday night for residents in parts of St. Tammany Parish north of New Orleans, along the Mississippi border. The engorged...
-
United Press International
| 10 months ago
Residents of 1,200 homes north of New Orleans were in shelters Sunday after the Pearl River threatened to overflow its banks and a lock after Hurricane Isaac. Days of rain after Isaac's arrival Wednesday led to officials in St. Tammany Parish to...
-
PRWeb
| 10 months ago
www.gonebeforegridlock.com/">Disaster evacuation plans need to be created well before an emergency has the chance to arrive, because the latest article from AbsoluteRights.com said a multitude of problems will be encountered by the unprepared. The...
-
Arizona Daily Sun
| 10 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Associated Press As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado, some on the Gulf coast...
-
MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks to people Friday while looking at damage from Hurricane Isaac in Jean Lafitte, La. MarketWatch) President Barack Obama plans to travel to Louisiana on Monday to meet with local officials and survey...
-
Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
As Isaac pushes north, Gulf Coast slowly recovers Peter Roccaforte reflects on the damage to his home caused by Hurricane Isaac in Reserve, La., Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. Floodwaters cover many streets and power remains out in some areas. Louisiana&...
-
United Press International
| 10 months ago
Louisiana began to dry out Saturday as officials said life for residents was returning to normal despite high water and a lack of electric power. The storm that caused all the trouble, Isaac, left seven people dead as it moved toward Midwestern...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has visited a town in Louisiana which went through the fury of Hurricane Isaac, a day after accepting the party nomination for contesting for the US presidency. "I'm here to learn and obviously to draw...
-
SF Gate
| 10 months ago
As Gulf Coast residents confronted a waterlogged landscape of flooded homes and debris-covered streets on Friday, tatters of what had been Hurricane Isaac blew toward the parched Midwest, dumping more than a foot of rain, causing isolated flash...
-
Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Water from the Gulf of Mexico floods highway Route 23 in Hurricane Isaac-hit Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana August 31, 2012. Energy firms worked on Friday to resume oil, gas and refining operations in the U.S. Gulf region following Hurricane...
-
Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
The Mississippi River has reopened to shipping from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to its mouth after being closed on Monday as Hurricane Isaac approached. The Coast Guard was limiting some traffic as a backlog of vessels _including a cruise ship _ waited...
-
Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Water from the Gulf of Mexico floods highway Route 23 in Hurricane Isaac-hit Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana August 31, 2012. As Tropical Storm Isaac was on its path through the Caribbean before becoming a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico this...
-
Fox News
| 10 months ago
Mass. Some Florida dogs who escaped Hurricane Isaac this week will be up for adoption in Massachusetts. Workers at the C Dog Run animal shelter in Florida's Panhandle were concerned about the storm damage and power outages Hurricane Isaac might...
-
PRWeb
| 10 months ago
Bowl normally operates their buy-one-give-one model to distribute food to animal shelters around the country, recipients designated by the food purchaser. Isaac.’ “Folks can even purchase food and designate both bags go to the hurricane victims if...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
As Issac wrapped up its weekend run over the Gulf Coast, leaving almost a million residents in Southern states without power, the weakened storm is reportedly making its way toward southern Missouri later on Friday. Share This Story The latest...
-
MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
As Hurricane Isaac clears out of the Gulf Coast, analysts are sweeping in to assess the economic damage. New Orleans resident Diana Whipple watches waves crash on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Isaac approached the city Tuesday. The initial read...
-
KSBY
| 10 months ago
Near Slidell, police are hoping the flood waters will drain out by nightfall so crews can start repairing the damage. Thousands near the Louisiana-Mississippi border have been evacuated... They're waiting for officials to intentionally breach the...
-
Russia Today
| 10 months ago
33 Rescue workers transport residents in the River Forest subdivision (AFP Photo / Chris Graythen) (9.7Mb) embed video The degree of damage handed out by Isaac has thankfully been but a sliver of what Katrina caused seven years earlier, but the...
-
United Press International
| 10 months ago
Electric company trucks lined up in a lot in New Orleans Thursday, preparing to head out to make repairs across the city a day after Hurricane Isaac brought 24 hours of high wind and rain to the region...Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Lights are slowly coming back...
-
South Burgenite
| 10 months ago
Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power, leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air conditioning or clean water. It will be a few days before the soupy brown...
-
National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Eyder Peralta A woman walks through flood waters from Hurricane Isaac's storm surge on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain Thursday. A woman walks through flood waters from Hurricane Isaac's storm surge on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain...
-
Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
Authorities say the bodies of a man and a woman have been found in a home in the flood-ravaged Louisiana community of Braithwaite.Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's Plaquemine Parish, said deputies went out to search for the couple Thursday...
-
Zee News
| 10 months ago
Over a million homes and businesses in Louisiana, the home state of Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, and neighbouring Mississippi were still without power as a weakened storm began a slow trek northward.
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The remnants of Hurricane Isaac trudged north on Thursday and U.S. Gulf Coast residents started to mop up and assess damage, even as much of Louisiana was still flooded and without power. Isaac, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on...
-
Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
You can see the water spilling over, Jindal said at an afternoon briefing in Tangipahoa Parish. He said officials do not believe the dam has been compromised by rising water from Tropical Storm Isaac. They do believe the integrity is still sound, he...
-
Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
Gerald Herbert A woman pulls herself along a fence in a skiff after Isaac inundated the area with floodwaters in Lafitte, La., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Isaac soaked Louisiana for yet another day and pushed more water into neighborhoods all around the...
-
Money Morning
| 10 months ago
After the country braced for the worst outcome, Hurricane Isaac spared the oil industry from costly damage, and oil prices erased earlier gains. Isaac lost intensity since making landfall Tuesday night, taking the pressure off crude. Benchmark oil...
-
Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| 10 months ago
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says a controlled release of water has begun at a Mississippi dam that's been stressed by Isaac and prompted evacuations in Louisiana. The dam is at a lake near the Louisiana-Mississippi border and has been under a lot of...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
A slow-moving category one hurricane when it hit the region on Tuesday (local time), Isaac was expected to weaken into a tropical depression on Thursday. Only one fatality linked to the cyclone has been confirmed so far...More than 1 million...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Torrential rain dropped by Hurricane Isaac threatened to burst a dam on Thursday, forcing evacuation of up to 60,000 people in Louisiana and Mississippi and leaving large areas of the region flooded and without power. Isaac, which was downgraded to a...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Isaac persisted along its treacherous path through the South Thursday, flooding wide areas, stranding residents and claiming its first fatality. While the hurricane-turned-tropical storm Isaac weakened and is expected to dwindle into a tropical...
-
Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Floodwaters surged into scattered neighborhoods in the suburbs of New Orleans early Thursday, even as Isaac's once-powerful winds tapered off and the storm meandered north. Rescue crews have been splashing into streets in cities such as Slidell, on...
-
United Press International
| 10 months ago
Tropical Storm Isaac, which was slowly weakening over the central part of Louisiana, claimed its first reported fatality Thursday, authorities said. Emergency management officials in Pearl River County said a falling tree struck and killed a tow...
-
The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
US Gulf Coast are urging residents to seek shelter amid fears a dam could fail as Tropical Storm Isaac douses an already drenched region. Local officials in Mississippi called for precautionary evacuations of the area near Lake Tangipahoa after the...
-
Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
Drought-stricken Missouri is preparing for what has been an unusual occurrence this summer a couple of rainy days.Forecasters expect remnants of tropical storm Isaac to drop several inches of rain in Missouri, starting before dawn Friday in...
-
BBC
| 10 months ago
Louisiana officials have ordered people to evacuate an area in the south-east of the state because a dam has been damaged by Hurricane Isaac. An estimated 50,000 people live downstream of the Lake Tangipahoa Dam in Mississippi, which has been damaged...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Hurricane Isaac has brought torrential rain and heavy flooding to the New Orleans area but residents and authorities were relieved the damage was nowhere near the scale of Katrina's devastation in 2005. The category 1 hurricane hit New Orleans with...
-
The Dallas Morning News
| 10 months ago
Miss. Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying areas along the Tangipahoa River because a dam at a state park lake in southwest Mississippi is in danger of failing. Officials in Tangipahoa Parish, La., fear the water it would pour...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Isaac, once a Category One hurricane but now just a tropical storm, is expected to be downgraded further to a tropical depression by late Thursday. In the meantime, the storm continues to pack winds of 45 miles per hour and pour down about feet of...
-
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Search-and-rescue operations around New Orleans resumed on Thursday after Hurricane Isaac brought heavy flooding, but relieved residents and authorities said the storm's destruction was nothing like that seen from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Isaac, a...
-
National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Eyder Peralta Errol Ragas walks past a cemetery to recover dry blankets from his home as rising waters from Hurricane Isaac flood the neighborhood of Oakville in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Errol Ragas walks past a cemetery to recover dry blankets...
-
Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
Rescue operations are under way in the town of Braithwaite, Louisiana, where dozens of people are stranded due to high flood waters amid Hurricane Isaac on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Photo: Carolyn Cole, McClatchy-Tribune News Service / Los Angeles...
-
The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Interactive Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on Wednesday, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages that had few defenses against the slow-moving storm that could bring days of unending rain.
-
NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Isaac's whistling winds lashed this city and the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain on its desolate streets, but the system of levee pumps, walls and gates appeared to withstand one of the stiffest challenges yet. To the north and south, though,...
-
CNN
| 10 months ago
Authorities were warning people in a handful of towns outside of New Orleans to get out early Thursday ahead of a storm surge brought on by hurricane-turned-tropical storm Isaac as it dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some areas. The warnings for...
-
News 24
| 10 months ago
Hurricane Isaac pounded New Orleans with fierce winds and torrents of rain on Wednesday, but the multi-billion-dollar flood defences built after Katrina swamped the city seven years ago held firm. Officials ordered the evacuation of about 3 000...
-
Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
On the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, this city absorbed a rough reminder of the Gulf Coast's vulnerability as big, slow Hurricane Isaac delivered a punishing but less powerful blow than its catastrophic predecessor. The...
-
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 10 months ago
Seven years to the day that Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures unleashed a deluge of devastation on the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac brought its own distinctive mode of destruction -- drenching the coast not with a quick blow, but with an...
-
SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Tropical Storm Isaac, downgraded from a hurricane about 19 hours after making landfall, drove water over a levee in a lightly populated part of Plaquemines Parish, flattened sugar cane 50 miles west in Terrebonne Parish, forced evacuation of a...
