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Hurricane Isaac Tests Loyola University's Emergency Response Plans

Tue, 2012-09-11 22:39 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - September 11, 2012

In the days following Hurricane Isaac’s slow march across south Louisiana, Loyola University New Orleans administrators have been reviewing their response with a critical eye to ensure emergency preparations continue to evolve and meet the demands of each situation; beginning Tuesday, 28 August, New Orleans felt the first of Isaac’s high winds and heavy rains – but Loyola University was ready.

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Significant Wave Height - National Data Buoy Center - Buoy 42012 - Orange Beach, AL

Tue, 2012-08-28 17:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Wave heights approaching 20 ft at NDBC Buoy 42012 - Orange Beach, AL Buoy located 117 miles east of Hurricane Isaac.

August 28, 2012 - 3:50 pm CDT

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42012

https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Data-Buoy-Center/128538033843673

Isaac Builds as It Churns Toward Coast

Tue, 2012-08-28 11:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Allen Williams Sr. found space in a shelter in Belle Chasse, La.  William Widmer for The New York Times

The New York Times - by Campbell Robertson - August 27, 2012

NEW ORLEANS — Huge and slow, Tropical Storm Isaac lumbered up through the Gulf of Mexico from Florida toward Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday, growing stronger by the hour and putting coastal residents on notice of an extremely wet and potentially destructive next few days.

The tracking forecasts reached a consensus by Monday night that the storm, which was a little over 200 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and on the verge of becoming a hurricane, would land overnight Tuesday somewhere around southeastern Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane.

But Isaac has been fickle and confounded predictions all along, and its intensification is just beginning.

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