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'

3 arrested in Plaquemines Parish for gun and drug possession Plaquemines Parish deputies arrested three Walker, La. residents for possessing drugs and guns. Crews check homes for more fatalities in Plaquemines Parish No other deaths from Hurricane Isaac had been reported as of Friday evening 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 Three arrested in two looting incidents in Plaquemines Parish One is being sought in one of the cases 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." Plaquemines Parish has long history with disasters BELLE CHASE, La. (AP) — Isaac brought severe flooding to southeastern Louisiana, hitting Plaquemines Parish particularly hard. Homes were inundated and dozens of people had to be rescued by boat after the storm pushed water over the top of a levee. Officials said they were going to puncture a hole in the levee, but they first had to wait for the winds to die down. Ever since the Mississippi ... 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. 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. Intentional breaching of levees underway in Plaquemines Parish Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News Email: mrodriguez@wwltv.com | Twitter: @mrodriguezwwl BELLE CHASSE, La.-- With miles of Plaquemines Parish now under several feet of water, intentional breaching of the parish's back is now underway. "Those marsh buggies that just passed are going down to go cut the levee on the west bank and we have two machines headed to the east bank," said Plaquemines ...
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