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Sally Depression Kills First in Southeastern United States

2020-09-17T16:43:57.168Z


Downpours fell between Wednesday and Thursday in Alabama and Florida in the southeastern United States in the wake of Storm Sally, which killed at least one person according to local authorities, and caused major flooding and power cuts. One person has died in the coastal town of Orange Beach, Alabama, Lt. Trent Johnson of local police told AFP on Thursday. Read also: Hurricane Sally hit the Sout


Downpours fell between Wednesday and Thursday in Alabama and Florida in the southeastern United States in the wake of Storm Sally, which killed at least one person according to local authorities, and caused major flooding and power cuts.

One person has died in the coastal town of Orange Beach, Alabama, Lt. Trent Johnson of local police told AFP on Thursday.

Read also: Hurricane Sally hit the Southeastern United States on Wednesday

Sally made landfall at 4:45 am (9:45 GMT) on Wednesday in Gulf Shores, a small town in Alabama.

It was then a category 2 hurricane (out of 5), which has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, then to a tropical depression.

Its winds have calmed down significantly and now only reach a maximum speed of 45 km / h.

The low on the other hand is moving slowly, which means continuous rains over the same areas for an extended period, intensifying the rising waters, according to the latest report from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) at 3:00 p.m. GMT Thursday.

Turned into torrents during Sally's passage, the streets of some towns in Alabama and Florida, like Orange Beach and Pensacola, were littered with debris and tree branches.

At Orange Beach, pleasure boats have even been blown by the winds to the marina docks.

The windows in our house broke at 3 or 4 in the morning and the whole house was shaking like a boat on the water.

It was scary,

”town resident Matt Wilson told local channel WPMI.

"

Many areas are experiencing historic flooding

," Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama, where a state of emergency was declared earlier this week, said Wednesday.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has also declared a state of emergency for counties in the state's northwest, and said he will travel to Pensacola on Thursday to assess the damage.

More than 400,000 people were still without electricity Thursday morning in the two states, according to the poweroutage.us site.

The depression was moving towards Georgia, where it is expected to continue to weaken until Friday.

Source: lefigaro

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