The Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts hunkered down early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard gained strength with landfall only hours away.
Winds from the storm's outer bands were lashing parts of the shoreline before dawn Tuesday and some additional strengthening was expected.
At 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, the center of the tropical storm -- the fifth one this season -- was about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Port Arthur, Texas and about 85 miles (135 km) east of Galveston, Texas, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. 
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