Hurricane Isaias kills at least two, leaves hundreds of thousands without power
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Hurricane Isaias killed at least two people and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands after making landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm Friday night, according to NPR.
The National Hurricane Center said Isaias came ashore around 8:30 p.m. local time with sustained winds of 105 mph. The storm brought a surge of about 5 feet before weakening into a post-tropical system. By early Saturday, its sustained winds had fallen to 35 mph as it moved through Alabama.
One person died in Escambia County, Florida, after a large tree collapsed onto a home, the county sheriff’s office said. A second storm-related death was reported in Jefferson County, Alabama, where emergency officials said a tree fell on a single-family residence.
About 780,000 customers in Florida, Alabama and Georgia remained without electricity late Saturday morning, down from nearly 900,000 earlier in the day, according to PowerOutage.us. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said about 16,000 utility workers were restoring service and crews were clearing fallen trees from roads. Officials continued to warn of flash flooding farther inland.
President Donald Trump also canceled plans to attend Saturday’s University of Georgia-University of Alabama football game in Tuscaloosa, saying first responders and law enforcement should remain focused on the storm.
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