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TCPalm
March 28, 2018
The community experienced flooding during Hurricane Isaac in 2012 and Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004. More: No sale: PGA rejects $2 million bid from St. Lucie West Services District for golf course. More than 100 homeowners packed the meeting room, some expressing concern about howÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
March 20, 2018
... officials say they've attempted to address that issue by providing off-island housing during the transition. The needs-based, voluntary relocation assistance program is open for both present residents and those that had to leave Isle de Jean Charles because of Hurricane Isaac in August 2012 or afterward.
NOLA.com
March 19, 2018
ANDREW BOYD. This time it managed to stay open for three years -- until Hurricane Isaac slammed it once more in 2012. It was closed through July of 2013. After that, things looked like they were finally on an even keel. Something else was to befall Fort Pike, though, something worse than wind or water.
The Plaquemines Gazette
March 13, 2018
Prior to that, an even smaller temporary building served as a library from 2007 until it was damaged in Hurricane Isaac. District 7 council member Audrey Trufant-Salvant has hailed the library as a critical need to the community that is finally being met. “Libraries are the gateway to knowledge and culture.
Daily Astorian
March 1, 2018
The Sisters-based company has responded to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Isaac. “By the time you activate this contract, you're going to want us there yesterday. That's just the way it is,” said Donald R. Pollard, the company's chief operating officer. “There's no water. There's no power.
New York Times
February 24, 2018
Repairing hurricane damage is always far more expensive than providing protection. Katrina cost between $120 billion and $150 billion, Mr. Graves noted. The new system has already saved hundreds of millions of dollars in smaller storms like Hurricane Isaac in 2012. “When a big one comes,” he said,ÃÂ ...
Louisiana Weekly
February 19, 2018
The New Orleans Advocate reported that Smith faced a series of delays caused by prosecutors, his own lawyers, Hurricane Isaac and a mental competency hearing. A hearing on Smith's case had been scheduled by the Louisiana Board of Pardons & Parole for Jan. 25, 2018, but despite letters being sentÃÂ ...
Magnolia State Live (blog)
February 14, 2018
We're famously easygoing with our speech patterns in the South, dropping final g's, rendering I's that outsiders hear as ahs, stretching out our drawls, defending our y'alls, and holding firm against critics of ain't. But I stand before you today in strong opposition to the theft of three of Mississippi's four syllablesÃÂ ...
The Advocate
February 12, 2018
Smith's trial was delayed once by Hurricane Isaac and another time by a mental competency hearing. In 2015, he was offered a deal under which he could have been released in exchange for pleading guilty — but he rejected the agreement because he said he was innocent. In 2016, Smith filed a motionÃÂ ...
The Advocate
January 6, 2018
A newly rebuilt Lake Pontchartrain Elementary School in LaPlace is scheduled to welcome students again Monday, more than five years after Hurricane Isaac destroyed the building and left students scattered among other campuses. Construction was plagued by delays. But school officials finally cut theÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
January 3, 2018
Lake Pontchartrain Elementary School in LaPlace is set to reopen more than five years after Hurricane Isaac damaged the facility in St. John the Baptist Parish, resulting in its closure and eventual demolition. The new, from the ground-up $22.5 million facility is being dedicated Saturday (Jan. 6) during aÃÂ ...
Palm Beach Post (blog)
August 28, 2017
Palm Beach County got a tiny taste of a tropical cyclone-driven deluge in August 2012 when Tropical Storm Isaac sputtered by with little wind damage, but dumped more than a foot of rain when a training band of moisture stalled over the county. Some residents in western Palm Beach County were strandedÃÂ ...
MyPalmBeachPost (blog)
August 28, 2017
Palm Beach County got a tiny taste of a tropical cyclone-driven deluge in August 2012 when Tropical Storm Isaac sputtered by with little wind damage, but dumped more than a foot of rain when a training band of moisture stalled over the county. Some residents in western Palm Beach County were strandedÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 29, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Seven years to the day that Hurricane Katrina and levee failures unleashed a deluge of devastation on the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac brought its own distinctive mode of destruction on Wednesday, drenching the coast not with a quick blow but with an unremitting smothering.
ABC News
August 28, 2012
Hurricane Isaac made landfall this evening in southeastern Louisiana, with winds of 80 mph that spread out over an area 200 miles wide. It was a Category 1 hurricane as it came ashore, and the National Hurricane Center warned of "strong winds and a dangerous storm surge occurring along the northernÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Under the revised plan, remaining Isle de Jean Charles residents will receive new homes first, then those who were displaced after Hurricane Isaac in 2012. Any remaining tribal members ― including those who have already relocated themselves ― will be on their own, and may have to compete withÃÂ ...
Daily Comet
November 24, 2017
... and Urban Development that will pay for the projects is set aside specifically for parishes with unmet needs from Hurricane Isaac in 2012.
Florida Times-Union
November 17, 2017
I met a woman whose husband deployed to Iraq two weeks after Hurricane Isaac ravaged Slidell, La. Trying to ensure his wife and two young ...
NOLA.com
November 15, 2017
... to the defense team's requests for continuances, disruptions from Hurricane Isaac in 2012 and mental competency evaluations as reasons for ...
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
November 15, 2017
When Hurricane Isaac struck in 2012, none of these homes were flooded, avoiding some $2.2 million in losses. The upgrades to these homes ...
The Advocate
November 14, 2017
Hurricane Isaac hit the Louisiana coastline on Aug. 28 and ... Flemings-Davillier ruled the next month that Hurricane Isaac and Smith's mental ...
Houma Courier
November 12, 2017
Hurricane Isaac in 2012 caused significant damage, but nowhere near catastrophic. You'd have to go back hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008Â ...
Palm Beach Post (blog)
August 28, 2017
Palm Beach County got a tiny taste of a tropical cyclone-driven deluge in August 2012 when Tropical Storm Isaac sputtered by with little wind ...
Lincoln County Journal
December 31, 1999
In 2008, Hurricane Isaac brought heavy rains to northeast Missouri. The City of Silex was flooded from the southwest by Cuivre River and from ...
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
Hurricane Isaac: Aerial of flooding in Slidell in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.( MICHAEL DEMOCKER / THEÂ ...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
August 30, 2017
“Ya know, you jump forward to Hurricane Isaac, and then all of a sudden twitter was a very popular social media too, and there was someÃÂ ...
The National Memo (blog)
August 30, 2017
During Tropical Storm Isaac, Limbaugh questioned the National Hurricane Center's forecasting, pointing out “the degree of coincidence” thatÃÂ ...
KMVT
August 30, 2017
The last time they had to open it was for Hurricane Isaac in 2012. "Just in case we had to open, we started prep on Friday morning," said DanielÃÂ ...
KATV
August 30, 2017
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 and Hurricane Isaac in 2012 were the most recent hurricanes to make landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast, with Ike being the lastÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
August 30, 2017
Usually, their logic revolves around LGBT themes — Buster Wilson of the American Family Association insisted God sent Hurricane Isaac toÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
August 29, 2017
28 after a one-day delay due to Tropical Storm Isaac. The program begins at 2 p.m. at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in downtown Tampa.
Palm Beach Post (blog)
August 29, 2017
Palm Beach County got a tiny taste of a tropical cyclone-driven deluge in August 2012 when Tropical Storm Isaac sputtered by with little windÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
August 27, 2017
The rain delay was forced by forecasts for Tropical Storm Isaac, which ... Convention – which was delayed a day due to Tropical Storm Isaac.
WTOP
August 26, 2017
Five years ago: In the face of approaching Tropical Storm Isaac, Republicans pushed back the start of their national convention in Tampa,ÃÂ ...
The Intercept
August 25, 2017
Ahead of Hurricane Isaac in 2012, which came ashore in Louisiana, the Obama administration announced that it was suspending immigrationÃÂ ...
Texas Public Radio
August 25, 2017
In fact he says they did on their last attempt, 2012's Hurricane Isaac. "And the surge was twice as high as expected. But fortunately we had a bigÃÂ ...
Aiken Standard
August 24, 2017
... in Tampa, Florida, a day late, then immediately recessed as Tropical Storm Isaac surged toward New Orleans and the northern Gulf Coast.
Aiken Standard
August 24, 2017
Hurricane Isaac spun into the southern Louisiana coast, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered downÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
August 24, 2017
UPDATED: Tropical Storm Isaac continues to threaten. The storm had people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands bracing for torrentialÃÂ ...
The Weather Channel
August 23, 2017
One of the most recent examples was Hurricane Isaac in 2012, which moved slowly and even stalled at one point near the Louisiana coast.
NOLA.com
August 17, 2017
Hurricane Isaac pushes Lake Pontchartrain over the shore near U.S. 11 south of Slidell on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Louisiana wants to buildÃÂ ...
Monroe News Star
March 25, 2017
The 528th also responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008, Hurricane Isaac in 2012, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, Operation River Guardian in 2011, and three major floods in 2016.
Watchdog.org
March 24, 2017
The dam that created the lake there failed because of flooding from Hurricane Isaac in 2012. A bridge in Madison County was listed as closed even thought it received a 99 out of 100 rating on its sufficiency by inspectors and was open without restriction.
Baptist Standard
March 22, 2017
Slidell sustained serious flood damage due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Isaac in 2012, and it suffered another setback from floods last year.
NOLA.com
March 20, 2017
... for Louisiana's Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments, or LA SAFE. The federal effort aims to help the state kick-start its program for residents and businesses in low-lying areas of six parishes most affected by flooding during Hurricane ...
Daily Comet
March 18, 2017
In 2012, vehicle access to the island was closed off because of damages to the roads from Hurricane Isaac. The visitor's center would be used for educational programs, regulatory information, office and staff space and bathrooms.
Houma Courier
March 18, 2017
In 2012, vehicle access to the island was closed off because of damages to the roads from Hurricane Isaac. The visitor's center would be used for educational programs, regulatory information, office and staff space and bathrooms.
NOLA.com
March 16, 2017
A steady stream of shrimp trawlers make their way up the Intracoastal Waterway near the town of Jean Lafitte Monday, August 27, 2012, headed inland to ride out Tropical Storm Isaac. Louisiana Sea Grant executive director Robert Twilley says PresidentÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
March 15, 2017
1 to the cooperative endeavor agreement between the state Office of Community Development and Lafourche Parish government for the Hurricane Isaac parish hazard mitigation assistance cost share program. ACTION: Approved an agreement between theÃÂ ...
CBS Miami
March 9, 2017
Mayor Bob Buckhorn speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
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