Tropical Storm Claudette brings rain, floods to Gulf Coast
Source: AP
By KEVIN McGILL and RUSS BYNUM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Claudette dumped heavy rain across coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as it chugged inland Saturday, threatening flash floods and possibly tornadoes along its soggy course across the Southeast.
The National Hurricane Center declared Claudette organized enough to qualify as a named storm at 4 a.m. Saturday, well after the storm’s center of circulation had come ashore southwest of New Orleans. It was north of the city three hours later, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) as the storm plodded to the northeast at 12 mph (19 kph). The heaviest rains were far from the center, near the Mississippi-Alabama state line.
Tornado warnings were issued from the Mississippi coast to the western Florida panhandle. In Mobile County, Alabama, someone reported storm damage to a fishing pier on Dauphin Island, Alabama, said Glen Brannan of the county Emergency Management Agency. He said there were no reports of injuries.
“We’ve got little squalls running through. It’ll rain really really hard for a few minutes and slack up for a few minutes,” Brannan said early Saturday. “Just a lot of water on the roads.”
Residents in low-lying areas of Hancock County move their vehicles, lawn mowers, ATVs and boats to higher ground in Waveland, Miss., as a tropical system approaches Friday, June 18, 2021. Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The poorly organized disturbance was located Friday morning about 255 miles south of Morgan City, Louisiana. (Justin Mitchell/The Sun Herald via AP)
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I'm afraid this year is gonna be as bad or worse than last year, as far as storms. It's the new normal, thanks to climate change.
By the way, I'll be heading down there in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to some good Wintzell's...even with the cheesy sayings on the wall! 
Of course, the good seafood doesn't hurt, but we always went someplace else for good local seafood (pre-covid). Ed's Shed is great as are several other local places. Have fun while you are here.
It's hard to be worse than Mobile, but that place is.
And now the Delta variant is spreading rapidly in the U.S. including one incident I saw reported where it took out most of a county government IT department (Manatee County, south of where Tampa is), where the ones who died and/or got sick were unvaccinated - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215540827
I will still be wearing my double masks going to stores, etc.
And since that report there have also been multiple tornadoes reported along a line NE of there. This is a "baby" storm compared to what it could have been but it is still spinning up stuff in the right-front quadrant as it moves NE.
It might catch the edge of Cape Cod by Tuesday. Stay safe everybody!
