Tropical storm Cindy heads for the coast of Louisiana as authorities issue warnings and begin preparations for the storm. Communities started nailing things down and oil companies started evacuating their offshore facilities.
Cindy has been pegged with winds of 60 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami expects Cindy to muscle up some but they don’t expect Cindy to become a full-blown hurricane.
The NHC issued a tropical storm warning from Morgan City, Louisiana east all the way to Destin, Florida. Rain has already started to deluge the entire Gulf Coast. Authorities in the LaFourche Parish asked for voluntary evacuations of the lower portion of the parish that falls outside the storm levees.
The storm is hitting the coast right now.
Also lined up in the chute is tropical storm Dennis. This storm remains a fair distance out at 335 miles south-southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico and moves north-northwest.
The NHC said a tropical storm watch is in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona westward and Haiti, from the border to Port-Au-Prince.
Dennis is moving faster at about 20 miles an hour with wind speeds around 40 miles an hour. They expect the storm to pick up steam over the next day. NHC is predicting this storm will be in Haiti sometime tomorrow and hit Florida on Friday night.
John Stith is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
