The seventh named storm of the season formed Sept. 13.
First Alert Overnight Weather Forecast: Sept. 12A new tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, taking on the name Tropical Storm Gordon.strengthened into a tropical storm Friday around 11 a.m. That's around three days after it organized off the Cabo Verde Islands.
"It's just second nature I guess, being a nurse, you just go in and get it done, right?" Miles Crawford told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I just had to get to get him out of there."News footage from coastal communities showed waves from lakes, rivers and Gulf waters thrashing seawalls. Water poured into city streets in blinding downpours. Oak and cypress trees leaned in the high winds, and some utility poles swayed.
In the coastal community of Cocodrie in southern Louisiana, where many families own seasonal homes along the bayou for fishing, police guarded a road to prevent looting as people cleaned their properties. For many in the area bordered by bayous, swamps, lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, threats of flooding and hurricanes have become a way of life, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said.
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