More Flooding & Evacuations From Isaac: 7 Confirmed Dead To Date
Isaac may have left, but its legacy along the Gulf Coast was still developing Friday. Authorities and residents of Louisiana and Mississippi were contending with flooding, evacuations and cleanup, and the official death toll rose to seven.
In Ascension Parish, about 60 miles west of New Orleans, a voluntary evacuation was announced because of flooding from nearby Lake Maurepas that struck at least 10 homes. The parish, home to about 120,000, saw the worst flooding in many residents’ lifetimes — worse than during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or floods in 1983 and 1977, according to Ascension Parish spokesman Lester Kenyon.
“This is a historical event,” Kenyon said, “So much water has remained here, the whole region, the Lake Pontchartrain basin and Lake Maurepas is filling up.”
"It was the storm’s path, the way it came up and then parked itself right off of the coast, just feeding in rain bands to our parish and the parishes all around us. All of that filters down eventually to the Lake Pontchartrain basin,” Kenyon said, leaving it “swollen up.” Five pumps at a levee on the east side of the parish were “just blasting” Friday, he said, pumping 1,000 cubic feet of water per second back into Lake Maurepas. But that was causing another problem, Kenyon said: “It’s backing up toward us.”
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