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Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press Writer
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NEW ORLEANS - Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours.
Emergency teams were activated as Gulf residents prepared for a second strong storm in less than a month, although Edouard is forecast to hit a different stretch of the Texas coast or Louisiana than Hurricane Dolly did last month.
Rudy Guidry of Grand Isle, on the Louisiana coast south of New Orleans, was on his father's houseboat Monday morning making it a bit more secure than usual. "We're on the water right now. Just putting on extra lines in case it comes up," he said.
Edouard was expected to make landfall somewhere in Texas or southwest Louisiana Tuesday morning. It was moving west near 8 mph, and forecasters said the warm waters of the Gulf provided the right conditions for the storm to intensify and approach hurricane strength with winds of 75 mph or more.
A tropical storm warning was in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi River westward to San Luis Pass in Texas. A hurricane watch was in effect from west of Intracoastal City, La. to Port O'Connor, Texas.
Edouard had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph with higher gusts at 8 a.m. EDT Monday. The storm's center was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Grand Isle, La., and 285 miles east-southeast of Galveston, Texas. ......(more)
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