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A man was found dead and a woman missing after Orange Beach in Alabama was flooded when Storm Sally swept over the coastal city.
Despite the warnings, the city was shocked by Sally’s strength, and that the storm got there, and with such force.
– 24 to 36 hours ago they said (Sally) was heading to Gulfport (in Mississippi) with weaker winds. What a difference a day makes, says Mayor Tony Kennon and says that most of the city’s streets are flooded and only those who can prove they live in the immediate area can move freely in the area.
Warning for more rain
The western Florida resort town of Pensacola, 40 miles east of Orange Beach, is among the worst hit cities. There streets and squares have been submerged.
“The number of flooded roads and intersections, along with dangerous debris, has become too much to list,” local police reported on Twitter on Wednesday, but the situation has improved in the city and some previously closed roads and bridges have reopened, despite the danger. far from finished.
“This is the first salvo, but there will be more to be prepared for,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference Wednesday, according to the Associated Press.
DeSantis, in particular, is warning people in the interior that heavy rains are coming and that major flooding is expected around all Northwest Florida waterways and that even areas not directly affected by Sally could be forced to evacuate.
Creeps slowly forward
The storm is moving slowly towards the northeast and not only the communities closest to the coast have been affected. In the Alabama city of Andalusia, twelve miles inland from the coast, firefighters were able to rescue a father and his two sons who were being dumped down the city’s sewer system when bodies of water rushed into the sewer. . All three survived without serious injury, writes al.com.
At midnight Swedish time, NHC reported that Sally only reached just over 21 seconds, which corresponds to the strength of the gale, but that the storm could cause tornadoes in North Florida and South Georgia. At the same time, Sally was moving northeast at just under five miles per hour.
More than half a million homes and businesses have so far lost power where Sally retired, according to metering site poweroutage.us.
