Hurricane Sally Drenches US Gulf Coast
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published September 16, 2020 | 10:21 PM
Sluggish Hurricane Sally was dumping torrential amounts of rain on the US Gulf Coast on Wednesday and threatening "historic and catastrophic" flooding in parts of Alabama and Florida
Mobile, United States, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Sep, 2020 ) :Sluggish Hurricane Sally was dumping torrential amounts of rain on the US Gulf Coast on Wednesday and threatening "historic and catastrophic" flooding in parts of Alabama and Florida.
The slow-moving storm made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane overnight and has since lingered over coastal Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
Residents of some areas were grappling with power outages, downed trees and flooded streets and homes as Sally drenched swathes of the coast with copious amounts of rain.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said some isolated pockets could receive as much as 35 inches (89 centimeters) of rain.
"Historic and catastrophic flooding is unfolding along and just inland of the coast from west of Tallahassee, Florida, to mobile Bay, Alabama," it said.
At 10:00 am (1400 GMT), Sally had maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, the NHC said, and storm surge warnings were in effect for parts of the coast along with tornado warnings.
Sally was moving towards the north-northeast at five miles (eight kilometers) per hour, the NHC said. It was expected to weaken as it moved further inland and become a tropical depression by Thursday morning.
More than 500,000 homes and businesses in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi have lost power, according to the tracking site poweroutage.us.
Some of the worst reported flooding was in the city of Pensacola, Florida, which has a population of around 52,000.
Residents posted pictures of downtown streets resembling lakes with cars submerged to the tops of their wheels and wind gusts whipping up whitecaps on the water.
"Flooded roadways and intersections, along with hazardous debris in roadways (locations) have become too numerous to list," the Pensacola police tweeted. "Please stay off roadways now."A section of a new bridge, the Three Mile Bridge, over Pensacola Bay was missing, causing it to be shut down.
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