Images: 7 years after Katrina, New Orleans prepares for Hurricane Isaac

  [caption id=“attachment_435281” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Waves tear apart a pier along the Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island on Tuesday, 28 August. Alabama took a glancing blow from Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday as it headed toward landfall in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, but the storm still threatened the coast with high winds, torrential rain and pounding surf. Butch Dill/ AP[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_435282” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Blake Noblin paddles back to shore after helping his father Jeff Noblin gather boards from a neighbor’s pier on East Beach as Hurricane Isaac approaches Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Michael Spooneybarger/ Reuters[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_435283” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Waves tear apart piers and crash into the back yards of homes along the Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island. Butch Dill/AP[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_435285” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  A car sits stranded in rising floodwaters from Isaac, which is expected to make landfall in the region as a hurricane, in Venice, Louisiana. AP[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_435286” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  People make their way across Canal Street on in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans is bracing for the approach of Hurricane Isaac, now a Category 1 storm, which is predicted to hit the city on 29 August, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Mario Tama/Getty Images.[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_435287” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Joshua Keegan, 10, plays with his dog Scout as his mother Ybonne supervises in a flooded area outside of the levee system along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans, Louisiana. Jonathan Bachman/Reuters[/caption]