Isaac Makes Landfall, Perilous Time for New Orleans

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Tue Aug 28, 2012 at 08:26:25 PM EST
Tags: Hurricane Isaac (all tags)

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Hurricane Isaac touched down at 6:45 p.m. about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans. New Orleans is under both a hurricane warning and a tornado watch. 100,000 are already without power. There are flash flood watches. Storm surge flooding should begin tonight and continue through Thursday morning. Here's the latest alert.

Time for Zachary Richard and his cajun/Zydeco/blues/rock/music to send good thoughts to those in Isaac's path. "Come On Sheila" from Snake Bite Love, is one my favorites:

I’ve been waiting here since this morning,
I’ll wait as long as it will take.
Down in the old town of the city of New Orleans,
With my heart so heavy it might break.

Last night they put up a hurricane warning,
Last night you came into my room.
Around midnight the rain started falling,
I was holding on to you.

Who's Sheila? [More...]

Sheila was a dancing girl working in the evenings,
On the altar of old men’s fantasies,
She hitched down from north Mississippi
With a lot of hope and one pair of jeans.

Here he is live singing "The Levee Broke" about Katrina.

I saw him at the Hard Rock in New Orleans in the 90's....he puts on a great show. Everyone danced from start to finish. He is an activist (dedicated to preserving the Louisiana environment and his Acadian heritage), a poet, a documentary filmmaker (He made "Against the Tide," about the history of the Cajun people and some environmental films) a songwriter who plays the accordion and guitar, and equal parts French and American. More here.

Here is the fourth segment in his series about Katrina, written in 2006.

The problem of the coast of Louisiana is an American problem. But, as we have seen in the wake of Katrina, it is very difficult to get Congre