⁍ Sally brought torrential rains and flash flooding to Georgia as it slogged to the Carolinas.

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⁍ It struck Gulf Shores, Alabama, a day earlier with winds clocked at 105 mph.

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⁍ Some 465,000 homes and businesses in Alabama, Georgia and Florida remained without power.

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– The remnants of Hurricane Sally dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, killing at least one person, washed out bridges and roads, and left hundreds of thousands without power, Reuters reports. It struck Gulf Shores, Alabama, a day earlier with winds clocked at 105mph, killed one person in coastal Alabama, and another was reported missing. Some areas were inundated with more than 2 feet of rain. Pensacola, Florida, east of the storm’s landfall, experienced up to 5 feet of flooding, and travel across the region was limited by damaged roads and bridges. Some 465,000 homes and businesses in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida remained without power. Sally was the 18th named storm in the Atlantic this year and the eighth of tropical storm or hurricane strength to hit the United States. A tropical disturbance was brewing in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Thursday that has a 90% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours. Two other named storms were in the Atlantic, making this one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. Hurricanes have increased in intensity and destructiveness since the 1980s as the climate has warmed, according to researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.