Tropical Storm Cindy: Drenching rains, flood threat on coast
NEW ORLEANS — Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm’s slow crawl toward land. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, like his Alabama