Slow-moving Tropical Storm Barry threatens Louisiana ports, refineries, LNG facilities

摘要

Tropical Storm Barry is expected to make landfall over thecentral Louisiana coast Saturday, bringing the potential for extremeflooding, National Hurricane Center information showed Friday.The NHC forecasts storm winds could reach hurricane strengthwhen Barry reaches the Louisiana Coast.But the slow movement of Tropical Storm Barry will result in a long,heavy rainfall and flooding along the central Gulf Coast. The NHC haswarned that extreme rain will flood the coastal regions south of BatonRouge and New Orleans.