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Isaac slams southeast Louisiana The slow-moving hurricane has brought heavy rain and wind to Louisiana, sending water over a levee in rural Plaquemines Parish, knocking out power to thousands and raising fears of severe flooding.
Aug. 28, 2012
Scott Burley runs from crashing surf on the Ken Combs Pier as Hurricane Isaac approaches Gulfport, Miss.
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People sit on a bench on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Isaac approaches. The 630-square-mile wetland sits above New Orleans. High winds and heavy rains can cause the estuary to overflow levees into New Orleans.
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Aug. 28, 2012
First responders brave a driving rain storm as they use an airboat to reach a house fire in a flooded subdivision in Bay St. Louis, Miss. After several attempts to reach the house fire, flooded streets forced the firefighters to use the airboat.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Waves tear apart a pier along the Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island. Alabama took a glancing blow from Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Evan Stoudt faces strong winds while visiting the banks of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.
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Aug. 28, 2012
People play in wakes kicked up by Hurricane Isaac on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans as the storm nears land.
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Aug. 28, 2012
A crowd gathers on the end of the boardwalk on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to watch rough surf generated by Hurricane Isaac as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico with an expected landfall in Louisiana.
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Aug. 28, 2012
L'Rena Anderson leans into the wind as she walks along the beach on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Anderson was among many local residents who turned out to watch the effects of Hurricane Isaac as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landfall in Louisiana.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Dora Cullen, a resident of the Lakeview district of New Orleans, takes a walk with her children Nicolas, 2, and Reilly, 7, in the 17th Street Canal neighborhood on Monday. The canal's levee, shown behind them in this photo, gave way during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and caused widespread flooding in New Orleans.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Dora Cullen and her children Nicolas, 2, left, and Reilly, 7, walk on the foundation of a damaged home in their 17th Street canal neighborhood in New Orleans. The canal, in the rear, gave way during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and caused widespread flooding throughout New Orleans.
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Aug. 28, 2012
The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans is protected from the industrial canal by a levee wall.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Brenda Walker and her brother, Irvin Walker, sit on the porch of her rebuilt home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Brenda Walker’s home sits within 50 yards of the industrial canal that breached during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Her home was destroyed as water levels on her property rose above 12 feet.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Wilbert Williams of Boothville, La., sits at the Belle Chasse Auditorium shelter as Hurricane Isaac bears down on the Louisiana coast in Belle Chasse, La.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Krystal Ledet, back left, looks after her son, Brandon Malbrough, as her daughter, Alexus Malbrough, left, colors with her grandmother, Melissa Rodrigue, after evacuating to a shelter in Houma, La.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Richard Sackfield, center, fills a sandbag for Annie Savoie, left, as Isaac nears landfall in Houma, La.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Brennan Ruiz, 6, watches waves crash on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain with his mother, Susan Selano, right, and grandmother Lisa Selano as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches New Orleans.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Brandon Ellis takes advantage of the height of his ATV to ride up to the waves coming over the seawall alongside Beach Boulevard in Waveland, Miss., as Isaac's winds begin to hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Aug. 28, 2012
Employees of the Orleans Levee District remove signs from Lake Shore Drive near the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches New Orleans.
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Aug. 27, 2012
Rose Paffenroth, left, who lives in Vero Palm Estates, gets a hug from neighbor Sue Stiles after a tornado severely damaged a row of homes in their community in Vero Beach, Fla. Although the eye of Tropical Storm Isaac moved up Florida’s Gulf Coast, damage from the storm was spread across much of the southern part of the state.
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Aug. 27, 2012
Oliver Marti sweeps rainfall off the roof of his flower shop in Tampa. Although the city earlier prepared to take the full brunt of the storm, Isaac moved to the west, sparing the Tampa area except for heavy rains.
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Aug. 27, 2012
Workers stack sandbags on top of retaining wall baskets in Port Sulphur, La.
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Aug. 27, 2012
Theresa Bartholomew holds onto her dog Max before giving him temporarily to animal control while staying at the Plaquemines Parish hurricane shelter at the Belle Chasse Auditorium.
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Aimo Ny rests on her cot in the hurricane shelter at the Belle Chasse Auditorium in Belle Chasse, La.
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