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Hurricane Isaac will linger over Louisiana with heavy wind-driven rain for two days while reducing the threat to offshore energy production.
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Hurricane Isaac unleashed a storm surge of as much as 12 feet (3.7 meters) and strong winds as it pushes water over a levee on its path to New Orleans.
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Tropical Storm Isaac reached hurricane strength as it approached the Gulf Coast and its winds started to batter New Orleans.
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Hurricane Isaac developed near the mouth of the Mississippi River today on a path that may take it near New Orleans and bring flooding rain to the lower Mississippi Valley, the National Hurricane Center said.
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With Tropical Storm Isaac forecast to reach hurricane strength today, New Orleans residents said they are concerned about flooding even with improvements to levees after a collapse during Katrina in 2005.
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Helen Scott was 82 when Hurricane Katrina and its floodwaters collapsed her house in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. Now, she must find strength to confront another hurricane.
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Tropical Storm Isaac maintained a maximum wind speed near hurricane strength as it shut 78 percent of oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and sent gasoline futures to a four-month high.
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Oil climbed the most in a week and gasoline rose to the highest in almost four months as Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened, crimping output in the Gulf of Mexico, and a fire in Venezuela shut part of the world’s No. 2 refinery.
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Tropical Storm Isaac may drop as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain on Florida as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico on a course that is expected to take the system through oil and gas fields and then onto land near the Louisiana-Mississippi line.
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Four of the 125 gates at Louisiana’s Morganza floodway are open, allowing the muddy Mississippi River to pour into the Atchafalaya River basin as part of the Army Corps of Engineers strategy to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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