Tropical storm Francine made landfall in South Louisiana as a cat too with powerful winds and dangerous storm surge. Janet Shan Leon is in Gulfport, Mississippi which has a curfew. We're deep right here. Heavy storm surge pounded parts of southern Louisiana as Francine came roaring ashore Wednesday night. As a category two hurricane restaurant manager, Melinda Burton was among those preparing for the powerful storm. We made sure we had all the flaps up in the front of the building because any time a storm comes, it blows really hard and we're scared. It's gonna break them as Francine inched closer to landfall, its outer bands reached New Orleans. Stay inside hunker down. Now, the time state officials have been working with FEMA for days. At least 2300 Louisiana National Guardsmen standing by ST Mary Parish is keeping high water vehicles and boats at the ready. We just want everybody to be safe. We've been prepping for the storm, getting different things together, chainsaws so that we can clear off roads because if they're closed, we can't get to people that need help. Hurricane Francine has just come ashore here, there is a continuing threat over the next few hours. Those are an elevated risk of tornadoes, strong rip currents, flooding and storm surge don't take a storm for granted because we've seen them spin up from nothing to monsters in a very quick period of time. In Mississippi. Gulfport's mayor is expecting a storm surge of 4 to 6 ft warning residents not to get complacent. Janet Shamlian CBS News Gulfport, Mississippi after landfall, Francine did is expected to cross over southeastern Louisiana before moving northward over Mississippi tomorrow. The National Hurricane center says the storm will weaken very quickly once it does move further inland.