Isaac drenches Haiti, Cuba, heads toward Florida

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Tropical Storm Isaac, image captured by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite on Sunday, Aug. 26 at 9:45 a.m. EDT and shows clouds from Tropical Storm Isaac from Cuba to northern Florida. Image Source: NASA GOES Project

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Tropical Storm Isaac pushed over Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti’s southern peninsula, where it caused flooding and at least four deaths, adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake…

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Tropical Storm Isaac makes landfall in Cuba, Al Jazeera
Tropical storm lashes Cuba after sweeping through Haiti, where it caused flooding and at least four deaths.

Isaac storm surge could put $36 billion worth of homes at risk, Reuters
The latest track of Tropical Storm Isaac puts more than $36 billion in Gulf Coast residential property at risk of flooding from storm surges, with southeastern Louisiana at greatest peril of huge losses, residential data analysis company CoreLogic said on Sunday. Isaac bore down on the Florida Keys Sunday afternoon, with the latest National Hurricane Center forecasts suggesting a Mississippi landfall Wednesday morning as a Category 2 hurricane.

Tropical Storm Isaac, Updates, NASA

Isaac passes through Cuba and the Dominican Republic towards Florida- in pictures, Guardian Uk

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