Hurricane Sally has made landfall in the United States as a Category 2 storm. 9News
"The sheriff's office will be there until we can no longer safely be out there, and then and only then will we pull our deputies in," Simmons said at a storm briefing late yesterday.This for a storm that, during the weekend, appeared to be headed for New Orleans.
Sally was a rare storm that could make history, said Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center. Up to 76 centimetres of rain could fall in some spots, and "that would be record-setting in some locations," Rappaport said in an interview last night. City of Biloxi work crews take advantage of the slow moving Hurricane Sally's winds to clean off sand from US Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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