A weekend that was supposed to be filled with celebrations of Juneteenth and Father’s Day has turned dreary in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, where Tropical Storm Claudette has brought wind, heavy rain and flooding to a region where some have sandbags still left over from last year’s record-breaking hurricane season.
Claudette formed on Saturday morning along the Gulf coast, about 45 miles (75 kilometres) south-west of New Orleans, the National Hurricane Center announced in a 4am advisory.
The centre of Claudette was located inland, and the storm was forecast to weaken into a depression by Saturday night.
With virus restrictions loosened and summer near, business owners across the Gulf coast had been
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