Hurricane Isaac is increasingly frightening: in the Italian night (yesterday evening in the USA) it made landfall reaching the coast of Louisiana, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and now it's heading ominously towards New Orleans, seven years after Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city and claimed the lives of 1.800 people on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
Isaac, which reached Category 1 hurricane strength earlier in the day on Monday with winds of up to 130 km per hour, is already causing heavy rain and dangerous storm surges on much of the northern Gulf coast, although experts say that as it continues its journey on land, it will lose intensity.
However, this does not mean that there is no more absolute state of alarm, launched by President Barack Obama himself: “This is not the time to tempt fate, this is not the time to ignore the warnings of the authorities. You have to take this seriously."
The concern is above all for New Orleans, which today presents itself as a ghost town, thousands of people have already evacuated the city, although according to calculations, if Isaac (less powerful, in any case, than Katrina) is going to keep this direction, he should just dodge the city.
