NEW ORLEANS (August 29, 2012)—More than 500,000 customers have lost power as Hurricane Isaac moves through southeast Louisiana, bringing wind, rain and flooding, utility companies say.
Most of the outages Wednesday were in areas around New Orleans as Isaac lashes the area with 80 mile-per-hour winds.
The Category 1 hurricane pushed water over a rural levee to flood some homes, knocked out power and immersed beachfront roads in Louisiana and Mississippi as it makes a drenching slog inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
Wind gusts of more than 60 miles per hour and sheets of rain pelted New Orleans, where people braced themselves for the storm behind levees that were strengthened after the much stronger Hurricane Katrina hit seven years ago to the day.
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