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Hurricane Isaias rips roof from gas station structure
PowerOutage.com said 442,000 Florida customers lost electricity as the storm weakened, while Alabama and Georgia reported 374,000 more outages.
- On Friday, Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour and a five-foot storm surge. The National Hurricane Center warned residents of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama to expect "extremely dangerous" winds.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency across 27 counties ahead of the storm's arrival, positioning over 16,000 "linemen and restoration personnel" on standby to restore power. Nearly 400 soldiers from the Florida State Guard were also deployed for response operations.
- As of 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, 442,000 customers in Florida were without power, along with 311,000 in Alabama and 63,000 in Georgia, according to PowerOutage.com. Social media footage documented flooded roads in Destin and a roof torn from a Pensacola business.
- In Dale County, Alabama, a sheriff's deputy was injured Friday when a tree fell on a vehicle during storm response operations. Experts have warned that previous hurricanes are linked to increased risk from Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria infection, due to flooding.
- The center of Isaias is forecast to move inland across Alabama into the Tennessee Valley over the weekend while still producing powerful winds and heavy rainfall. The NHC expects up to ten inches of rain in some areas, with the coastal Carolinas and southern Appalachians particularly vulnerable to flash flooding.
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Video from Pensacola, Florida shows hotel roof being damaged in Hurricane Isaias
Isaias crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane, hammering communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with damaging winds, heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surges. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress...
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