Authorities are planning to intentionally breach a levee in Plaquemines Parish on Thursday to relieve flooding from Hurricane Isaac, while in St. John the Baptist Parish 2,000 to 3,000 people were being evacuated because of flooding from Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain, officials said.
Farther east on Interstate 10 in New Orleans, Isaac littered the streets with tree limbs Wednesday, but the city’s mayor said the rebuilt levees and floodwalls are “holding.”
Meanwhile, 35 people were rescued in Plaquemines Parish and about 800 homes are believed to have significant water damage in that southeast Louisiana parish that has received the brunt of the storm since Tuesday night, Gov. Bobby Jindal said, adding that the storm may not leave the state until Friday.
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