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 makes landfall in southeastern floodwaters top ordered evacuate Faithbased Groups Respond Aftermath residents rescued by boat from flooded homes floods an exposed piece of land being hit storms Dam water released cut due intentional breachings Stranded 'act God'

Isaac Is Latest Blow to Swampy South Louisiana Plaquemines Parish, the marshy peninsula of southeastern Louisiana, was was the first landing point of Hurricane Isaac and the scene of perhaps its most thorough destruction. Crews check homes for more fatalities in Plaquemines Parish No other deaths from Hurricane Isaac had been reported as of Friday evening Three arrested in two looting incidents in Plaquemines Parish One is being sought in one of the cases Tensions run high in Braithwaite as residents return home after Hurricane Isaac On the first day that east bank Plaquemines Parish residents were allowed to access their homes since Hurricane Isaac's tumult, to survey the damage and see whether  anything was salvageable, tensions were high. Roxann Picou and Cheryl Taffaro, both... Plaquemines Parish residents grasp Isaac's devastation, face staggering undertaking of rebuilding 'Now I have nowhere,' flood victim says Isaac update from Plaquemines Parish "Currently there is no access to the following areas: Entire east bank and any areas south of Phillips66 on the west bank." 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 hardscrabble, mostly rural parish, even the sick and elderly are hardened storm veterans. Louisiana begins Hurricane Isaac recovery Aug. 30, 2012: Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser is seen on an airboat passing Myrtle Grove, background, after Isaac passed through the region, in Plaquemines Parish, La. 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. As Isaac nears, Louisiana town puts faith in post-Katrina improvements Plaquemines Parish has $2bn in rebuilt infrastructure, but many in this area south of New Orleans are wary of high water Plaquemines Parish styles itself as a "Blue Ribbon Resilient Community" and its location demands a certain ingrained stubbornness from those who call it home. It probably appears desolate and defensive even on a sunny day as state highway 23 winds along the Mississippi River ...
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