Hundreds of people were rescued after Hurricane “Sally” hit Florida and Alabama

Sally made landfall near the Gulf Coast of Alabama as a Category 2 hurricane and passed through Florida Panhandle (Florida Panhandle), even if the flood weakened to a tropical depression.
On Wednesday, floods washed away parts of Alabama and Florida, turning roads into rivers, flooding cars, and torrential rains in Panhandle, Florida along Hurricane Sahand in Florida, and several out of control. The construction barge was sent into the water.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said the turbulent current reached five feet in Pensacola, Florida, and rammed a barge into the Pensacola Bay Bridge under construction. Part, destroyed part of it.
The Pensacola area has received more than 2 feet of rain from Sally, and meteorologists say that coastal communities may receive up to 35 inches of rain.
Sally made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Alabama at about 5 a.m. Central Time and became a Category 2 hurricane. After passing through the Panhandle in Florida, it eventually weakened into a tropical depression, but it is predicted that the flood will not disappear soon. As of 9:30 pm central time, the center of the storm was in southeastern Alabama, and heavy rain extended to western Georgia. It continued to crawl northeast at a speed of about 9 miles per hour.
The National Hurricane Center warned: “There have been catastrophic, life-threatening floods in Panhandle, Florida and southern Alabama.”
In and around Pensacola, several barges were loose and out of control in the rough waters. One of them was driven by a crane towards the Escambia Bay Bridge. Sheriff Morgan said that he has considered various methods to prevent the barge from stopping when it is near the bridge, and even allowed 40mm grenades to be fired at the extreme measures before it was determined that the extreme measures were too dangerous and might not work at all. He said that fortunately, the barge washed ashore and never reached the bridge.
As water and fallen trees made the road impassable, and the high winds remained, residents were told that it might take several hours to dispatch emergency services. Officials said that as of Wednesday afternoon, at least 377 people had been rescued from flooded areas in Escambia County, and at least one shelter had been opened to deal with large numbers of evacuees. Two rivers in the county are expected to overflow, causing more flooding.
Tony Kennon, the mayor of Orange Beach, Alabama, said one person died in the storm and the other was missing. He said that due to hazardous conditions, including debris in the water, officials will conduct minimal search and rescue operations at night.
As of 9 pm Central Standard Time, 275,000 electricity users in Alabama and 240,000 users in Florida were still not receiving power, prompting Mobile and the Pensacola National Weather Service to issue warnings about proper use of generators. During Hurricane Laura last month, at least seven people died from carbon monoxide poisoning in generators.
Videos from residents and local media showed that houses in many towns were torn by strong winds, mooring ropes were torn, and electric wires were knocked down and torn. In Foley, Alabama, located in the northern part of the hurricane’s landfall zone, the image shows a destroyed mobile home and a door that appears to be pulled by the wind.
In recent days, the expected landing point of the storm has turned nearly 200 miles. It was once predicted that it would pass through the remote, low-lying areas of southeastern Louisiana, and may even extend beyond downtown New Orleans. Instead, the densely populated areas around Mobile and Pensacola, Alabama, will bear the brunt.
On Wednesday, Sally poured heavy rain and beat the area with dangerous gusts, leaving most of southern Alabama in chaos.
Mobile, which was almost closed, avoided the impact of the storm, but still saw strong winds, making the high-rise Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel sway like an earthquake. Outside, debris from damaged buildings cluttered the sidewalk, including large plates flying out of the overhang of the valet parking.
On Interstate 65, some drivers leaned toward the double-span high bridge north of the city that crossed the Mobile River. On Alabama Interstate 59 (a highway that terminates on the Gulf Coast), large trees completely blocked the northbound lane, forcing the driver to enter the other side of the road. The smaller roads are full of branches and leaves.
In Roxley, Alabama, a convenience store and gas station are crowded with motorists to refuel. Inside, residents bought 12 packs of beer, cigarettes and potato chips.
On the road, Tim Booth, a 62-year-old semi-retired truck driver, stood in his front yard. When he used a buzzing chainsaw to chop a fallen fir tree, it rained heavily. Mr. Booth said that he, his wife and 19-year-old son had considered going to the brick house of a relative in Pensacola, but they decided to get through the difficult situation given the relatively low wind speed forecast.
But the wind was stronger than anyone thought, and Mr. Booth’s family spent a painful night in their mobile home. He said: “After midnight, we really started to feel it.” “Man, it was just unloaded. It felt like Ivan-a Category 3 hurricane of the 2004 season.
Hurricane Sally looks about to hit New Orleans. Then Gulfport, Mississippi, then Mobile, Alabama, but after landing on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, it turned right on Wednesday morning and drove into Pensacola, Florida.
This city knows that hurricanes are changeable. But this surprised almost everyone. The worst thing about the waterfront is that a beautiful square called Plaza Ferdinand is covered with magnolia and oak branches.
There are two 72-foot catamaran ferries nearby, violently colliding against the black metal fence near the pier. These ferries take tourists to the Gulf Islands National Coast. The captain of one of the ships, Frank Rawley, is improvisingly tying them up. He said that the dock where they were once tied together is missing. He said: “Everything is broken.” “It just tore everything off.”
The owners of the Palafox Wharf reception venue, Sandy and Peter McDavid (Sandy) and Peter McDavid (Peter McDavid) came down to inspect the place. This is a 19th century building adjacent to the dock. Usually rented to hold a wedding banquet. A large blue sailing boat hit the railing of the deck. The water from the street seeped into the wooden floor on the ground, the skylights blew down, and the rain entered, soaking the carpet on the second floor.
Omi Yoder and her husband moved to the Bristol Park branch two months ago. They bought a brick house on a small road by the creek, with white siding on it, of a good size, but not too fancy.
Here is a nesting place: Ms. Yord will give birth to a child in about a month, and her first child will be a girl. On Wednesday, this place was filled with about two feet of water. The nursery where they had been working was destroyed.
They saw water rising from the street and were able to climb upstairs to move things. But the water ruined carpets and other things, and they and some friends dragged them to the side of the road in the late afternoon.
Ms. Yord did not know whether the car in the garage would start. They also have water. She thinks they will have to redo the floor. And start again in the nursery.
With raging wildfires burning large tracts of land on the West Coast and molasses-slow Hurricane Sally hitting the Gulf Coast, scientists say that we are once again witnessing the role of climate change in exacerbating natural disasters.
As predicted by government scientists in May, this hurricane season is the most active season on record, with 20 named storms so far. As the National Hurricane Center quickly runs out of letters for subsequent storms, where possible, subsequent storms will be based on Greek letters.
Scientists know that climate change makes hurricanes more humid, because as the atmosphere warms, it can hold more water. But there is evidence that it can also slow them down, so that storms can keep heavy rains and winds on the ground longer.
Research by Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, and other studies have shown that Arctic warming reduces the temperature difference between the region and the tropics. This causes the jet’s velocity to slow down, which affects other circulation patterns in tropical regions and mid-latitude regions such as North America.
Dr. Mann wrote in an email: “Our work shows that climate change is contributing to this phenomenon.” “It may play a role in reducing the translation speed of landing hurricanes.”
Although conservative media and President Trump have disputed any claim that climate change is a factor in wildfires on the West Coast, scientists have identified it as the main reason.
Sally made landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, a three-category beast, which landed west of the Gulf Coast on September 16, 2004.
“September. Escambia County Chief Deputy Sheriff Chip Simmons said in a Wednesday briefing that the 16th does not seem to be a good day for Pensacola.
The deputy sheriff said that Ivan suffered more damage due to strong winds, while Sali’s rain and storm surges appeared to be worse. He described the lower part of Perdido Key to the west on Wednesday that was underwater and was down. Trees and telephone poles under.
The 2004 hurricane season was deadly. Hurricane Ivan killed 57 people in the United States and 67 people in Caribbean countries, causing billions of dollars in damage.
The storm also caused part of the I-10 Escambia Bay Bridge above Pensacola Bay to collapse, similar to the accident in the Sali accident. On Wednesday, the Pensacola Bay Bridge under construction was severely damaged by a construction barge repeatedly hitting it. The bridge is called the Three Mile Bridge.
Sheriff Simmons said: “Then suddenly I need a little jog.” “It’s with us, it’s with us, and it’s with us.”
Still recovering from Hurricane Laura, and now preparing for Hurricane Sally, residents of the Gulf Coast and the eastern coastal areas watched vigilantly at reports of other storms in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on Monday, before the Rene Tropical Depression disbanded, five simultaneous storms occurred in the Atlantic region at the same time, which has not occurred since 1971.
Hurricane Paulette swept 100 miles per hour winds about 450 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and threatened to bring dangerous surfing and tumbling current conditions to Bermuda, the Bahamas and parts of the Atlantic coast.
Tropical Storm Teddy gained strength about 865 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and is expected to be close to “large hurricane intensity” by the weekend.
Tropical Storm Vicky has a maximum sustained wind speed of 50 miles per hour at approximately 710 miles west of Cape Verde, although it is not expected to threaten the land and is expected to weaken in the coming days.
The report was contributed by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Johnny Diaz, Richard Fausset, Patricia Mazzei, Rick Rojas, Marc Santora, Daniel Victor and Will Wright.


Post time: Oct-16-2020
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