Isidore Strikes U.S.

The Lady Castalia makes her way past the submerged jetties into the Port of Brownsville, Texas, Monday morning, Sept. 23, 2002.

Abdiel Salazar fishes off the jetties on South Padre Island, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002. The churning sea was created by Tropical Storm Isidore as it moved into the Gulf of Mexico and headed towards the Gulf coast.

Held by his mother, one-year-old Dustin Vo peers out of the side window of the family's pick-up truck as they prepare to evacuate their home in Buras, La., Wednesday afternoon Sept 25, 2002.

French Market workers begin boarding up the market in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002. Louisiana coastal residents began serious hurricane preparations as Isidore, a sprawling tropical storm that was expected to grow into a relatively weak hurricane, lumbered northward in the Gulf of Mexico.

Susanna Whitman, 7, plays with a dog in the water under a flooded railroad underpass on Canal Blvd., in New Orleans Wednesday evening, Sept 25, 2002. Tropical Storm Isidore drenched the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping parts of New Orleans with thigh-deep water and chasing tourists and residents inland.

Abby Pavon, holds her 4-month- old daughter, Toni Pavon, as she and her sons Thomas Hill, 7, far left and Nathan Pavon, 3, of Gautier, Miss., wave to their father and husband aboard the USS Ticonderoga as it pulls away from Pascagoula, Miss., Naval Station home port and heads to sea to avoid any threat from Tropical Storm Isidore.

A fisherman walks in a torrential rain past boats tied up at the Empire Boat Harbor early Wednesday, Sept. 25, in Empire, La. The boat harbor is filled with fishing vessels looking for a safe port in preparation for Tropical Storm Isadore.

Don and Alice Newger, from Watseka, Ill., wade in the rough surf near Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002. The Newger's were in the area celebrating their 16th anniversary as Tropical Storm Isidore approaced the area from the south.

Scott Meinens pulls a boat of his belongings down Jeff Davis Parkway in New Orleans Wednesday evening Sept. 25, 2002. Tropical Storm Isidore drenched the Gulf Coast on Wednesday.

Houma police detective Dana Coleman, left, helps a family evacuate from their flooded home after Tropical Storm Isidore made landfall early Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 in Houma, La., southwest of New Orleans.

Water floods Water Street in front of the Mobile Convention Center Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 in downtown Mobile, Ala., as Tropical Storm Isidore made landfall.

Josh Motes, left, Walter Johnson and Dorothy Irvine Wells, right, react as waves caused by Tropical Storm Isidore pound over the end of the Gulf State Pier in Gulf Shores, Ala., as the storm approached Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002.

Bill Davis, of Winder, Ga., takes to the rough surf, caused by Tropical Storm Isidore, along the public beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002.

A large wave pounds the 825 foot Gulf State Pier in Gulf Shores, Ala., as Tropical Storm Isidore approaches the Gulf Coast Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002.

Shannon Lopez, 11, paddles in front of her home in the Delacroix Island community south of New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002. Lopez had paddled out to get the mail for her mother, Sherri.

After checking on his boat, Doyle Jones walks through several feet of standing water on the dock at West End Park on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, Thursday morning, Sept 26, 2002.

Curtis Whitten, right, and Jaimee Hunt tour their flooded neighborhood with Hunt's dogs after Tropical Storm Isidore made landfall Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 in Houma, La.

Jim Swango, left, and his step-daughter, Holly Fuller, look at the damage to the Lighthouse-Porter Avenue Pier in Biloxi, Miss. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002. High waves from Tropical Storm Isidore destroyed several piers along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

A flooded gas station is seen Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 in Mobile, Ala. Torrential rains and winds from Tropical Storm Isidore pounded coastal Alabama as the system made landfall in Louisiana early Thursday.

High waves and a toppled beach shelter are seen in the background as Tommy Long of New Orleans, La., waits for a Gulfport, Miss., city bus, at a bus stop along Beach Blvd., in Gulfport, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002. Long said he needed a ride to an area Veterans Administration hospital and found the winds from Tropical Storm Isidore to be just a "little wind."