Floods Still Causing Major Problems in Colorado

Seems like this has been going on for weeks...

Sandy Floods NYC and Death Toll at 16

Hurricane Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore after washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk and putting the presidential campaign on hold.

Buildings have collapsed, the steeets are flooded and the power is out to millions.  Also 16 are dead as the result of Sandy.

Isaac Pounds Gulf Coast

Isaac stalled over southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday morning, dumping torrential rains across the Gulf Coast and pounding low-lying areas with 8- to 10-foot storm surges and 75-mph winds. The National Hurricane Center warned that hurricane conditions would persist all day and into the evening for storm-battered coastal residents.

The huge, slow-moving storm knocked down trees and power lines, flooded roads and highways and sent bands of wind and rain pelting an area from New Orleans to the Florida panhandle. Isaac, a Category 1 hurricane, is expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm late Wednesday as it slowly crawls north toward Arkansas and the Mississippi River Valley.

Isaac Now a Cat 1 Hurricane

Isaac became a hurricane Tuesday that could flood the coasts of four states with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans, where residents hunkered down behind levees fortified after Katrina struck seven years ago this very week.

Shelters were open for those who chose to stay, but there are no mass evacuations.

Tropical Storm Lee's Storm Surge and Louisiana

Tropical Storm Lee's storm surge begins to inundate Southeast Louisiana around 5PM Saturday, September 3, 2011. Carr Drive beach and a nearby fire department in Slidell, Louisiana are swamped by Lake Pontchartrain as Tropical Storm Lee hovers in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Within 30 minutes, this area went from virtually no presence of standing water to being entirely flooded under more than a foot of water from Lake Pontchartrain.

The president of Plaquemines parish in New Orleans, Billy Nungesser, told Fox News his biggest concern was whether the levees would hold.

"Twenty inches of rain, which is expected - we're hoping that's spread out over three days, as nowhere (here) can take that heavy rain in a concentrated timeframe," Nungesser said.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported several Louisiana parishes were distributing sandbags and issuing evacuation orders for the lowest-lying areas.

"It's not like the entire place is underwater, but certain places are," Jefferson Parish president John Young told the Los Angeles Times. "Right now, we're acting out of an abundance of caution. We don't want to have people trapped in there."

Lee was battering the Gulf Coast six years after the region was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The levee system around New Orleans failed after Katrina, submerging much of the city. More than 1500 people died.