Good Luck to Folks on the Gulf Coast
 

The hurricane season is starting early. Good luck to you folks in harms
way.
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PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - A strengthening Tropical Storm Arlene soaked parts
of Florida as its center moved toward the northern Gulf Coast, stirring
memories of last year's devastating hurricane season.

Forecasters said Arlene, the Atlantic hurricane season's first named
tropical storm, could become a weak hurricane before making landfall in the
Deep South late Saturday, with the worst weather arriving east of the
storms' center.

Arlene was then expected to move along the Mississippi-Alabama line,
reaching Tennessee by Sunday afternoon.

Tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches were posted from Florida to
Louisiana, as Arlene's top sustained winds reached 60 mph, up from 45 mph
earlier in the day. The wind speed was likely to increase, but forecasters
said the biggest impact would be heavy rain.

Residents in flood-prone areas along the Gulf Coast were urged to move to
higher ground. In the vulnerable marshes south of New Orleans, bulldozers
were moved into place in case water from a storm surge breaks through a
levee.

http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/8156450/

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