"We can not stress enough the importance of avoiding high water", Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards warned Wednesday ahead of Cindy's arrival.
Entergy Corp., the biggest power company in the Gulf Coast area, said about 4,200 of its 2.9 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas were without power Thursday morning.
The National Weather service has warned that the storm could cause "life-threatening flash flooding".
Tropical Storm Cindy pushed ashore along the Louisiana coast Thursday morning, delivering high winds, rough surf and heavy rain.
At least one death is already being blamed on the storm, a 10-year-old boy on an Alabama beach was struck and killed yesterday by a log thrown ashore by the storm surge.
The city and surrounding area remain under tornado warning.
The system is expected to exit the state toward the Tennessee Valley on Friday afternoon as a cold front pushes into Arkansas from the Great Plains. That should limit flooding threats to nuisance street flooding.
Tropical Storm Cindy has made landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds near 40 miles per hour.
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Although we're probably not going to see much else due to the dry air, Ken Graham, director of the Slidell office of the National Weather Service, said the "incredibly saturated" atmosphere means there is still a chance for a couple of inches of rain to develop "real fast".
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said emergency operations teams have been activated or are on standby to prepare for the storm's landfall.
"It doesn't look like it will drop anything like it is down in the Gulf Coast", Carroll said.
Heavy rains will pummel Cincinnati in the overnight hours and into Friday evening, bringing the threat of flooding to the area.
As of Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service issued a tropical storm watch for the upper Texas coast into Galveston after the storm's projected path shifted slightly to the west.
In Gulfport, Mississippi, Kathleen Bertucci said heavy rainfall Wednesday sent about 10 inches of water into her business, Top Shop, which sells and installs granite countertops.
Some parts of MS have reported up to eight and a half inches of rain since Cindy's arrival, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot has raised the readiness level of Texas' State Operations Center in response to the onslaught of heavy rain and high winds. Harrison County Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy said there were no injuries but fences, trees and power lines were damaged.
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