NEW ORLEANS — Much of Plaquemines Parish was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.
“My family is split up,” said Angela Serpas, from flooded Braithwaite. Serpas and her daughter were staying with her in-laws while her husband and son were staying in Belle Chasse, a suburban area of the parish.
“This is the second time we’ve lost our home,” she said. “We lost it in Katrina.”
At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. — five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi. President Barack Obama was to visit Louisiana on Monday, a day ahead of the Democratic convention.
Workers continued their return to offshore oil and gas production platforms and drilling rigs, electricity came on for hundreds of thousands of people. But workers also continued to deal with toppled trees and downed power lines, driving remained hazardous in areas without working traffic lights, and New Orleans opened two shelters so those with no electricity could escape the heat.
