Hurricane Isaac: Meet The Louisiana Residents Seen ENJOYING The Ferocious Weather (PICTURES)
Breezy Does It: Hurricane Isaac-Baiting
Ted Thornhill— The Huffington Post UK
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As Hurricane Isaac crashed on to land, some Louisiana residents ignored warnings of potentially life-threatening storm surges and 100mph gusts and simply baited the freak weather.
Groups of people were captured on camera tested their courage against wind, rain and waves.
Some strolled along shorelines, while others sat on benches, laughing in the face of Isaac’s temper.
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They must be barking...
One lad even played with his dog in the flood waters.
Resident Mary Shelton had told the BBC’s Today programme that “there are people who rode out Katrina and think that this is nothing”.
Perhaps it’s these hardy residents that the photographers have been snapping.
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While not as powerful as Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, killing 1,800 people, Hurricane Isaac still has the power to cause considerable disruption.
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Isaac's gusts have reached 100mph, as this group have probably discovered
Around 400,000 are without power and one flood levee has already been breached.
Ms Shelton added that the wind “sounds like a train” and that the rain is “non-stop”.
See the slideshow below for more Isaac-baiting.
Hurricane Isaac Baiting
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People walk in the storm surge from Isaac, on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain, as the storm approaches landfall, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. The storm was arriving at the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Louisiana and Mississippi when it struck on Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (credit:AP)
(02 of05)
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People play in the storm surge from Hurricane Isaac, on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain, as the storm nears land, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (credit:AP)
(03 of05)
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A couple watches as waves break along the beach in Gulfport, Miss., as Isaac approaches Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. The Gulf Coast braced for the landfall of Hurricane Isaac late, hunkering down behind boarded-up windows with stockpiles of food and water as wind-driven rain lashed bayous and beaches. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, hoping the city's strengthened levees will hold. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (credit:AP)
FLORIDA HURRICANE ISAAC(04 of05)
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A crowd gathers on the end of the boardwalk on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 to watch rough surf generated by Hurricane Isaac as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico with an expected landfall in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine) (credit:AP)
(05 of05)
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These three waved away the imminent danger. (credit:Getty)