Sunday 24 January, 2021
A curfew has been ordered in New Orleans as tropical storm Isaac continues.
Hurricane Isaac came shore at 12:45am Irish time – and again this morning – on the seventh anniversary of Katrina.
President Obama has called on residents in the storm’s projected path to heed the warnings, saying: “Now’s not the time to tempt fate.”
Tropical Storm Isaac may to be upgraded to a hurricane – and could hit the day before the seventh anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
The tropical storms is expected to build strength as it approaches America’s Gulf Coast.
It is seven years – almost to the day – since Hurrican Katrina devastated the same area in 2005.
Storm continues to make its way towards the US coast after bringing heavy winds, rains and flooding to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
The Republican Party has cancelled the first day of its election convention amid warnings over Hurricane Isaac.
The Caribbean nation is still reeling from an earthquake over two years ago.
