As Sally churns from the beach, it is already causing widespread flooding and power failures.
Hurricane Sally, moving at a brisk pace over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, transmitted power overnight, although its course turned eastward to Pensacola, Fla.
Sally’s vague speed and unpaved trajectory, which was moving at a speed of only 2 miles per hour, as it intensified into a Class 2 hurricane with winds up to 100 miles per hour early Wednesday, increased the likelihood of the storm causing catastrophic flooding.
According to the National Hurricane Center, a four- to six-foot hurricane around Dolphin Island off the coast of Alabama could cause up to 30 inches of rain in the area from the Florida Peninsula to Mississippi. Forecasters also warned of deadly flash floods.
More than 150,000 people lost power overnight, and local officials warned residents that flooding would probably intensify throughout the day.
“This is a life-threatening situation. Now, find the high surface !!, ”National Weather Service Office in Mobile, Ala., Warned in a tweet.
Late Tuesday night, Mobile and Gulf Shores, Ala. Residents and local newspapers were posting videos of winds blowing, hurricanes and heavy rains. Videos from Pensacola Beach, Fla., Flooded seawater in residential streets and gardens. According to the National Weather Service, a casino badge near Koden, Ala, fell loose due to strong winds and storms and crashed into a dock.
In recent days, approximately 200 miles of the estimated landfall of the storm have come to an end. It was once expected to hover over remote, low-lying areas of southeastern Louisiana and possibly reach beyond the New Orleans metropolitan area, but recent estimates show that Sally is clipping the southeast corner of Mississippi as it lands in Alabama and Florida. .
John D. Block, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alaa, said the storm was moving “at the speed of a bike in a candy shop” as if it were passing through a wing and reversing its choice.
“I am well aware that people on the Gulf Coast are very aware of Mother Nature’s wrath,” Alabama Governor K. I.A. said Tuesday. “We still hope and Sally prays that it won’t bring that kind of pain and heartache, but my fellow Alabamians, Hurricane Sally don’t need to be recognized.”
Near the Louisiana border, near the top of the Florida Penhandle, Navarre, Bay St. Louis, Miss. A hurricane warning is in effect for the area up to.
The warning for a tropical storm covered the area west of the Pearl River to Grand Isle, LA – including the metropolitan New Orleans – and the Indian Pass east of Navarre, Fla.
Officials urged people to take advantage of the storm’s slow pace and get out of the way of damage. Those who stayed behind were warned that the water could rise to a higher level.
“I’ve seen the streets and neighborhoods soon fill up faster than five, six, seven and deeper depths of water,” Sam Cochrane, Mobile County Sheriff, said during a briefing Tuesday.
For those left behind, he added, “Before we can get you out, it could be a few days or longer.”
81-year-old port city Mobile, Ala. There is a deep respect for the power of the weather, where hurricanes are always a fact of life. Evidence on Tuesday was on the empty downtown streets near it as night fell and the city waited for Hurricane Sally to move slowly along the coast.
Bars and restaurants that displayed signs signaling a coronavirus crisis (“no handshaking,” one announced) now had sandbags in anticipation of a new crisis from the south. Violent winds animate the hands of old oak trees. The traffic lights on the vehicles slammed and shook.
In Bynville Square, a 19th-century d. Hardly anyone panicked with him to see the fountain in honor of George Ketchum, who helped bring reliable drinking water to the city.
For the last day or so, some longtime mobile residents said Hurricane Sally reminded them of Hurricane Danny in 1997 with its dangerous and stubborn delay, which also proceeded at a thunderous pace as it rained for hours, muddy and devastating river. Was provoking the flood. In southern Alabama.
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Mayor Sandy Stamps urged people in low-lying areas to move to higher ground known as flood prone areas.
“We are urging you that the warnings that we are giving you are serious,” he told a news conference on Tuesday. “They’re talking about unprecedented rainfall.”
Hurricane Laura is still recovering and now Hurricane Sally is tormenting residents of the Gulf Coast and the East Coast were watching reports of the development of other major storms in the Atlantic.
On Monday, before the tropical depression receded, there were five simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic, which have not occurred since 1971. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Three are still active.
Hurricane Poulet blew at 100 miles per hour 450 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and threatened to bring dangerous surf and rip current conditions in Bermuda, the Bahamas and parts of the Atlantic Coast.
Tropical Storm Teddy Laser was gaining power about 865 miles east of the Antilles, and was estimated to be close to “the strength of a major hurricane” as it approached Bermuda over the weekend.
Contributed by the report Johnny Diaz, Richard Fawcett, Rick Rojas, Mark Santora, Daniel Victor And Will Wright.
