LATEST: Even though Sally is no longer a hurricane, the flooding threat continues Thursday; the system is swamping homes and forcing rescues of hundreds of people as it pushes inland for what could be a slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South.
Even thoughis no longer a hurricane, the threat was far from over Wednesday night as it moved inland as a tropical depression, soaking the coastal communities in its path.
The system threatened to lash much of the coastal region near the Florida-Alabama border with heavy rain and flooding into Thursday, officials said. The storm was"causing torrential rains over eastern Alabama and Western Georgia," the National Hurricane Center said in a bulletin late Wednesday. Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescues of hundreds of people as it pushed inland for what could be a slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South.
At least one death, in Orange Beach, Alabama, was attributed to the storm. Another person was missing, Orange Beach City Administrator Ken Grimes toldFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference that nearly 600 search-and-rescue missions had been conducted since landfall early Wednesday. The state has activated 500 National Guard members to assist, he said.
The storm was about 30 miles south-southeast of Montgomery, Alabama Wednesday night, the hurricane center said. It packed sustained winds of 35 mph.The Gulf State Park Pier in Gulf Shores, Alabama, was essentially"
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