Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in Louisiana - NYTimes.com
Depuis Katrina, de nouvelles protections ont été construites, les anciennes digues apparemment renforcées. Isaac sera donc un test pour voir si le nouveau système résistera.
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published : August 28, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — On the eve of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which brought widespread devastation after the colossal failure of the system built to protect the city, New Orleans on Tuesday night once again found itself facing the impending arrival of a huge and deadly storm.
Isaac was a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour when it made landfall at 6:45 p.m. local time just southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, about 95 miles from New Orleans, and then wobbled westward and back out over water. Around 11 p.m., it was about 75 miles southeast of New Orleans with the same sustained winds.
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