Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding, hundreds rescued

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LOOK: Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds of people. 📷 AP Photo

Chopper that crashed in Basilan was Air Force ambulance on way to pick up blast victim in Jolo

By early afternoon, Sally had weakened into a tropical storm, with winds down to 70 mph . Showers still fell in parts of the stricken area Wednesday evening, and the storm was expected to generate heavy rain farther inland Thursday as it moved over Alabama and into Georgia. For much of the day, it moved at just 5 mph , concentrating the rainfall.

“There are entire communities that we’re going to have to evacuate,” the sheriff said. “It’s going to be a tremendous operation over the next several days.” Like the wildfires raging on the West Coast, the onslaught of hurricanes has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing slower, rainier, more powerful and more destructive storms.

“We got a few people that we just haven’t been able to get to because the water is so high,” Kennon said. “But they are safe in their homes. As soon as the water recedes, we will rescue them.” “We had some warning, but this was just such a strange storm,” Lambrisky said. “So all of this preparing that you do, when you know the storm is coming, was something we only half did because we were convinced the storm wasn’t going to hit us.”

 

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