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Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana
Weakens to tropical storm, but brings torrential rains, flooding to Gulf Coast
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Aimee Cutter, the owner of Beach House restaurant, walks through water surge from Lake Pontchartrain on Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, La., ahead of Tropical Storm Barry Saturday. Barry reached hurricane strength by the time its center reached the Louisiana coast Saturday afternoon, but was soon downgraded to a tropical storm again, dumping torrential rains across the coast and inland. - photo by Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that could test the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.
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