⁍ Sally brought torrential rains and flash flooding to Georgia as it slogged to the Carolinas.
⁍ Some areas were inundated with more than 2 feet (60 cm) of rain.
⁍ Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, offered prayers for residents.
– The remnants of Hurricane Sally are dumping more than a foot of rain on parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, leaving at least one person dead and hundreds of thousands without power and others with ruined homes, Reuters reports. One person was reported missing. 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 433,000 homes and businesses in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida remained without power. Lee Hayes, 56, a security officer, held her dog Rico close to her as she recounted how she lost an entire side wall of her home in Perdido Key overnight. She had been ready to leave at any moment, her kayak ready on her couch inside, both her and her dog wearing life jackets. “I’m like OK, we’re not going to drown, we’re not going to drown,’ she said. She recalled going outside to check the water surging beneath her deck. “The door slammed and locked. It was just such a force the whole wall blow out. I couldn’t get back in. It was really scary.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/storm-sally/update-4-us-storms-rains-wreak-havoc-on-southeastern-states-idUSL1N2GE0B8