From Bloomberg: Hurricane Isaac unleashed a “dangerous storm surge” of 10.3
feet (3.1 meters) on a path toward New Orleans after making landfall in the
Plaquemines Parish in southeastern Louisiana.
The storm, packing heavy rains and high winds, was 60 miles
(97 kilometers) southeast of Houma, Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center
said in an advisory at midnight local time. The center of Isaac “wobbled” to
the west and was back over water near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the
center said in a 9 p.m. report.
The hurricane is moving west-northwest at 7 miles per hour
with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, making it a Category 1
hurricane, the center said. It forecast Isaac will travel inland over southeast
Louisiana at a “slightly slower speed” in coming days. Tropical-storm-force
winds of 39 mph or more have started slapping southern Louisiana, which was hit
by Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005. Levees protecting New Orleans failed in
that storm, killing 1,800 people, displacing tens of thousands….
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