07-06-2020 09:25 via news.yahoo.com

High winds, rain as tropical storm makes Louisiana landfall

Tropical Storm Cristobal make landfall on the Louisiana coast Sunday, packing 50 mph winds and spinning dangerous weather as far east as northern Florida, where it spawned a tornado that uprooted trees and downed power lines.The lopsided storm moved ashore between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the barrier island resort community of Grand Isle, which had been evacuated a day earlier.Residents of waterside communities outside the New Orleans levee system — bounded by lakes Pontchart
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