Hurricane Sally causes flooding of up to one metre in some parts of the United States south-east, leaving hundreds of thousands without power as others are forced to evacuate their homes.
Hurricane Sally uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to half a million homes and businesses as the powerful storm tore across the Alabama-Florida coast.A sheriff said entire communities would have to be evacuatedThe Category 2 hurricane made landfall early on Wednesday morning near Gulf Shores, Alabama, with top winds of 155 kilometres per hour.The storm battered the metropolitan areas of Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, which have a combined population of almost one million.
Emergency crews plucked people from flooded homes. In Escambia County, which includes Pensacola, more than 40 were rescued, including a family of four found in a tree, Sheriff David Morgan said."There are entire communities that we're going to have to evacuate," Sheriff Morgan said.The sheriff said Hurricane Sally has knocked out a section of the new Three Mile Bridge in Pensacola as the storm pounded the Gulf Coast with wind and rain.
More than of rain was recorded near Naval Air Station Pensacola, and nearly one metre of water covered streets in downtown Pensacola, the National Weather Service reported."It's not common that you start measuring rainfall in feet," said forecaster David Eversole in Mobile. "Sally's moving so slowly, so it just keeps pounding and pounding and pounding the area with tropical rain and just powerful winds. It's just a nightmare.""The rain is what stands out with this one. It's unreal," said Cavin Hollyhand, 50, who left his home on a barrier island and took shelter in Mobile, Alabama, where he viewed the damage on Wednesday.
"We've only got one name left," said Jim Foerster, chief meteorologist at DTN, an energy, agriculture and weather data provider, referencing the procedure to name storms.
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