U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to multimission coastal patrol boat USCGC Sturgeon Bay load ice, water and meals, ready to eat aboard the cutter at the ferry landing in Belle Chasse, La., Aug. 31, 2012. Sturgeon traveled down the Mississippi River to Venice, La., to deliver supplies to residents after Hurricane Isaac flooded the region. Isaac developed as a tropical storm over the Western Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 21, 2012, affecting Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba before making landfall as a hurricane on the Gulf Coast of the United States.