ANYONE FEELING THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE ISSAC?

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Hurricane Isaac made its second landfall in southeastern Louisiana early Wednesday, sending up to 12 feet of water into people’s homes as an 18-mile stretch of levees was overtopped.

The storm surge also flooded areas of the Mississippi coast with water rising several feet in some parts, authorities said.
Some 380,000 people were without power in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

The storm hit land just west of Port Fourchon, La., with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph at around 2:15 a.m. local time (3:15 a.m. ET), according to aircraft and radar data from the National Hurricane Center.

Caitlin Campbell, a public information officer with Plaquemines Parish, told NBC News that the water had overtopped 18 miles of levee from St. Bernard Parish Line to White Ditch.

Shawn Reynolds, a producer at The Weather Channel, said in a message on Twitter that Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser had said 12 feet of water was inside some houses in the area.

Plaquemines Sheriff’s department officials were going from door to door telling people to get to higher ground.

There was a mandatory evacuation for southern end of the west bank of Plaquemines Parish. Evacuees were being told to go to St. Bernard Parish Prison.

In Mississippi, Hancock County Emergency Management Director Brian Adam said early Wednesday that water stood up to 4 feet deep in the most vulnerable areas.

Police waved drivers off U.S. 90, the main beach road in Gulfport, because of flooding and a curfew. A billboard had torn loose.

Tornado warnings have been posted because of thunderstorms in southern Mississippi. But back streets of some communities showed little evidence of Isaac's passage save for occasional downed tree branches.

The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings for the Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, East Bank of Plaquemines Parish, Northwestern Plaquemines Parish, Western St. Bernard Parish and St. Charles Parish.

“At 3:27 a.m. CDT, National Weather Service meteorologists continued to [detect] very heavy rainfall that will likely result in flash flooding across the Metropolitan New Orleans and adjacent coastal area,” it said in one notice.

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