New Orleans, Louisiana: Severs years after Katrina’s devastation, Hurricane Isaac has landed in southern Louisiana on Tuesday, bringing high winds, soaking rains and storm surges in New Orleans.
Isaac’s storm surge poses a major test of the so-called Crescent City’s new flood-control systems and reinforced levees that failed in 2005, leaving parts of the city underwater.
Forecasts from the US National Hurricane Center showed the storm would possibly strike New Orleans on Tuesday.
“Many parts of the state could see 24 to 38 hours of tropical storm-force winds,” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told a news conference earlier.
“We’re going to see a lot of downed trees and power lines. We need people to stay safe.”
Storm surge flooding is already occurring in coastal areas of southeastern Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
Earlier, the Army Corps of Engineers closed for the first time the massive new floodgate on the largest storm-surge barrier in the world, at Lake Borgne, east of New Orleans.
Isaac had New Orleans in its sights as the city is still recovering from Katrina, which swept across it on August 29, 2005, killing more than 1,800 people and causing damage of billions of dollars.
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