Storms head for La., Texas

MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says a broad area of low pressure near the Yucatan Peninsula could brew nasty weather along the Texas and Louisiana coasts and inland tonight and Tuesday.
Hurricane center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said the low may develop into a tropical system.
But he said that whether it does or not, it’s likely to slam into the middle and upper Texas coast and west Louisiana with at least 4 to 6 inches of rain and 40-mph winds.
He says that includes parts of Texas that were flooded only weeks ago.
He says people should pay attention to the system whether or not it’s given a name.
Feltgen says a hurricane hunter plane checked it Sunday afternoon and another was to go out this morning.
The system is likely to make things even tougher on people who live along the Red River in Louisiana.
The Red is still falling slowly at Shreveport and has barely started dropping at Natchitoches, so it will be a while before northwest Louisiana business owners know the full extent of flood damage.
The starting point of a long rebuilding process will be a meeting June 23 in Natchitoches for river officials and business owners, Red River Valley Association director Rich Brontoli said.
More damage shows up daily, so companies need time to get a complete list together, he said.
And the area is likely to get more rain as the large low pressure area moves north.Some damage already is apparent.
Cindy Wilkins says that with 3 feet of water in her Cash Point Party Place in north Bossier, the place will need gutting and rebuilding. But she says she cannot afford it.
The event center was fully booked before the Red rose. Now, said Wilkins, she’s working nonstop to keep her clients.
She has moved some to Faith Performance Horses in Elm Grove, but some groups don’t care for that move.
“I’ve already had a Parkway High class reunion and wedding set for October cancel their bookings after learning the event would not be at Cash Point,” Wilkins said. “I don’t hold it against them, but I can’t help there was a flood. It was out of my hands.”