Isaac Continues to Pound Gulf Coast

Hurricane Isaac may have dropped to tropical storm, but it is still pounding the gulf coast and parts inland.

Isaac has now caused a death in the United States, as high winds knocked a tree over killing a man in Pearl River County, Mississippi.

The storm is continuing to cause tornado warnings and flooding in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Dozens have been injured in various incidents caused by the winds, tornadoes, and waters; and hundreds have been trapped or displaced by the storm, with thousands more evacuated.

Some places have seen as much as twenty-four inches of rain, in twenty-four hours, and some levees are no longer able to hold back all the water, even as predictions of as much as twenty-five more inches of rain are made.

Parts of Louisiana are being aided by National Guard efforts, and disaster areas have been declared in fifty-eight of the sixty-four parishes.

Nearly a million people are out of power, help is on the way from other states, but some routes are not currently passable.

Residents along the Tangipahoa River have just been given til 11:40 CDT to evacuate as the levee at Lake Tangipahoa is about to brake.

The state government is sending buses to aid in the mandatory evacuation of fifty to sixty thousand people.