At 7 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Cindy was located near latitude 30.5 North, longitude 93.7 West. Cindy is moving toward the north near 12 miles per hour (19 km/h), and a turn toward the north-northeast is expected tonight, followed by a turn toward the north-northeast later Thursday. Major General Glenn Curtis with the Louisiana National Guard says they have pre-staged 100 high water vehicles and 33 boats throughout the southern and central regions of the state.
While most of the rain from Cindy has fallen on south Alabama, everyone needs to stay weather alert as creeks, rivers and lakes start to rise.
As a result, some local roads are expected to face minor flooding, and some could be temporarily closed, the weather service said.
A boy on an Alabama beach was struck and killed Wednesday by a log washed ashore by storm surge from Cindy, which spun bands of severe weather ashore from the Florida panhandle to east Texas as it churned ever closer to the Gulf coast.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency Wednesday for the entire state.
Communities across the strike-zone clean-up as the tropical system continues to push inland.
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"We haven't heard of water getting into homes", Buller said.
Ivey said farmers are reporting significant losses because of the heavy rains and said she would be contacting the U.S. Department of Agriculture to request assistance.
The predicted heavy rainfall coincides with the one-year anniversary of the June 23, 2016 flood, which has been connected with at least 24 deaths and millions in property damage across parts of 18 counties, hitting Kanawha, Greenbrier, Nicholas and Clay the hardest.
Some parts of Lancaster County could get up to 2 inches of rain, but in general the total will range from a quarter-inch to three-quarters of an inch, Walker said.
Severe weather and flooding have already been reported over the past two days along the Gulf Coast. Those storms will then spread across the southern half of the state with the southeast region predicted to get the most rain. "And we regret that so much", the governor said.
But so far, Cindy's effects remain less damaging than initially feared. The storm made landfall early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana. That also doesn't necessarily mean anything extraordinary for us, though recent soggy weather has left us susceptible to some flooding risk, and we will likely see rain between Thursday evening and early Saturday, possibly an inch or more in many locations.
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