Storm Cindy Bears Down on Gulf Coast After Curbing Oil, Gas
- Cindy could delay oil imports, exports through the week
- Storm to move over Louisiana-Texas coastline early Thursday
Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., on June 21, 2017.
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Tropical Storm Cindy, which has already curbed energy production in the Gulf of Mexico, disrupted shipping and forced workers off oil and gas platforms, is now dumping rain on the Gulf Coast.
With top winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) an hour, the system is moving northwest toward the coast and was about 105 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a 11 p.m. New York time advisory. While Cindy wasn’t forecast to move across southeastern Texas or southwestern Louisiana until early Thursday, heavy rainfall was already affecting the northern Gulf Coast.