We'll keep our fingers crossed for them..but they are under sea level..so I'll bet on wide spread flooding.
They've already declared a state of emergency.

As of 2PM EDT (1800 GMT), the Weather Channel is showing TS Isaac tracking farther west, making it more likely that Isaac will reach New Orleans.

For me, the farther west that Isaac is, the better, because then the rain from Isaac would be more likely to reach my community, which is in need of rain.

As I see it, every community located along the Gulf of Mexico is of equal value. Thus, a hurricane is equally bad no matter where it strikes.

At the time of this post, Dr. Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center, cannot pinpoint just where Isaac will reach land.

I've been watching the weather channel all day...and if Isaac misses NO, it won't be by far.

Of course, all towns and cities are just important as NO...no one ever said any differently..after Katrina, everyone has eyes on NO...their 7th anniv, is coming up.

In case some of you didn't notice, there is a blue link in the first post of the this thread that will give you constantly updated information.

Currently, Issac is expected to land near New Orleans with around 90 mph winds and a lot of rain.

been watching it.

It should reach hurricane strength any time now. It seems to be heading directly for New Orleans.

Well, apparently the title was dead on accurate as Issac is now a hurricane and about to hit dead on into New Orleans. I don't know why anyone would post a trajectory that was already 15 hours old and then refer to "sensationalism", but "oh well".

The rains are supposed to test the new levees as the water levels are now predicted to be within three feet of topping the dikes. The storm is slowing down (it is now 8 mph) where it can drop even more rain ... now predicted to be a foot or more.

Hopefully, everything will hold, but all the major emergency services have mobilized. There are national guardsmen all over the city. Most of the city is empty.

Fourteen billion dollars of major new levees and drainage improvements should be able to resist this cat one storm.

I haven't watched the weather today..but it sounds as if NO is in trouble again...we'll pray for the best!

...Before the storm’s arrival on Tuesday, mandatory evacuations had been imposed in parts of eight parishes in Louisiana and in low-lying areas of Mississippi. The Red Cross had opened 19 shelters in Mississippi and Alabama and 18 in Louisiana.

In Alabama, extensive flooding is likely in Bayou La Batre, a town in Mobile County, as well as parts of downtown Mobile according to the National Weather Service. Several of the rivers flowing into Mobile Bay are also expected to flood.

The storm’s center is likely to stall over Louisiana through Thursday, said Rick Knabb, the director of the National Hurricane Center.

Forecasters continued to predict a potentially life-threatening coastal storm surge, already reported in some spots in Louisiana to be over 10 feet.

At Shell Beach in Louisiana, a storm surge of 10.7 feet was reported, according to the National Hurricane Center. In Waveland, Miss., a surge of 7.5 feet was reported.

Communities may be cut off for days, and flooding may result in “certain death” in areas outside the levees. “The hazards are beginning,” Mr. Knabb said. “It is going to last a long time and affect a lot of people.”

After the storm made its first landfall on Tuesday just southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River at about 6:45 p.m., it then wobbled westward and back out over water. Around 11 p.m., it was about 75 miles southeast of New Orleans with the same sustained winds and it remained stalled for hours, with bands of wind and rain continuing to churn over an area stretching several hundred miles.

Around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the storm began to move slowly north again, making a second landfall west of Port Fourchon, La. But it continues to make slow progress and “surge heights of 6 to 10 feet are still occurring along portions of the coast of Southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi,” according to the National Hurricane Center.

Federal officials have warned repeatedly that the storm, which killed 29 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, would generate high seas, intense rain and serious flooding in coastal and inland areas for days.

John Schwartz and Campbell Robertson reported from New Orleans, and Kim Severson from Biloxi, Miss. David Thier contributed reporting from New Orleans and Marc Santora, Timothy Williams and Christine Hauser from New York.

I read there was a levee that broke in NO and they expect some heavy flooding again.

Some never learn.

I've been 50 miles from NO most of my life and it happens almost every hurricane that hits near them.

Emergency management officials reported the overtopping of an 18-mile stretch of the back levee in Plaquemines Parish from Braithwaite to White Ditch, which will "result in significant deep flooding in the area," the National Weather Service of New Orleans said.

The levee was not upgraded after Hurricane Katrina, which struck the region seven years ago Wednesday. That levee, according to the National Weather Service, is maintained by the parish and is not part of the federal hurricane protection levee system.

Published August 29, 2012 | FoxNews.com

Authorities say a storm surge driven by Hurricane Isaac is overtopping a levee in a thinly populated part of mostly rural Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans.

Parish spokeswoman Caitlin Campbell said water was running over an 18-mile stretch of the levee early Wednesday and some homes had been flooded.

Sheriff's deputies from St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes were going house-to-house looking for residents who'd remained after an evacuation order.

Parish President Billy Nungesser said a portion of the roof of his home had blown off. He described wind-driven rain coming into his home as "like standing in a light socket with a fire hose turned on."

Dozens of residents in Plaquemines Parish are stranded and trapped inside homes in the area, The Times-Picayune reported.

"The devastation of my house is worse than Katrina and the flooding in Woodlawn is worse than Katrina, so those things tell me that the damage on the east bank is worse than Katrina," Nungesser told The Times-Picayune.

Isn't that what Ese just said?