Hurricane Isaias<\/a> has crashed into the United States Gulf Coast before losing speed and turning into a post-tropical storm as it moved over southern Alabama, threatening flash flooding and strong winds farther inland.<\/p>\nThe US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday that Isaias is about 89km (55 miles) south-southwest of Montgomery, with maximum \u2060sustained winds of 100 kilometres per hour (65 \u2060miles per hour).<\/p>\n
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When it made landfall near Destin, Florida, as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Isaias had maximum sustained winds of 169km\/h (105mph), the agency said.<\/p>\n
Roads in Destin were flooded, while in nearby Pensacola, police warned residents to stay off the streets because of debris across roadways.<\/p>\n
While the extent of the damage was not immediately known, many area residents posted pictures online of downed trees and power lines, and one social media video showed a roof being ripped off an inn in Pensacola.<\/p>\n
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A man tries to push a car as waves wash over the road ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, in Englewood, Florida, US, October 9, 2026. [Englewood Area Fire Control District via Facebook\/Handout via Reuters]<\/p>\n
Some Panhandle counties temporarily suspended their emergency response on Friday night because of dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n
Parts of southern Alabama were also flooded, with officials in Mobile reporting downed trees and power lines.<\/p>\n
Roads in Houston County, which is in the southeastern corner of the state, were closed because of similar conditions.<\/p>\n
More than 664,000 customers in Florida and Alabama were without power early Saturday, according to poweroutage.com.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest concerns is a storm surge that could reach 0.91-1.52 metres (3-5ft) from Dauphin Island, Alabama, to Florida\u2019s Aucilla River, according to the hurricane centre.<\/p>\n
The storm grounded most Friday flights at several airports, including all flights in and out of Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport.<\/p>\n
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Hotel guests are assisted using flashlights as electricity went off shortly before Hurricane Isaias\u2019 landfall in Pensacola, Florida, on October 9, 2026. [AFP]\u2018Under control\u2019<\/p>\n
Asked about hurricane preparations, President Donald Trump \u2060told reporters outside the White House, \u201cWe\u2019re watching it very \u2060closely, the hurricane,\u201d adding that it was \u201cunder control\u201d.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s National Guard deployed about 5,000 soldiers and airmen to help with the response, with search-and-rescue teams ready to respond, while some prisons evacuated inmates.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency declarations have \u200cbeen approved in Florida and Alabama to ensure federal resources are available to respond to Isaias,\u201d Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on X, as residents \u200cwere urged to take shelter and watch out for hurricane conditions.<\/p>\n
Another tropical storm, Rachel, was also expected to bring strong winds and rain to northern Mexico and Southern California over the weekend.<\/p>\n
And Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane as it barrelled towards Mexico\u2019s coast early on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The NHC said Simon\u2019s maximum sustained winds increased to 225km\/h (140mph). A storm of that strength or greater is considered a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Simon is expected to bring heavy rainfall over parts of southwestern Mexico, possibly concentrated along the coast of Jalisco and in parts of Michoacan, Colima, and Nayarit.<\/p>\n
Forecasters warned of life-threatening flooding and mudslides.<\/p>\n
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Workers cordon off a petrol pump with yellow tape at a gas station in Navarre, Florida, on October 9, 2026, as Hurricane Isaias moves north toward the Florida Panhandle. [AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 664,000 customers in Florida and Alabama have been left without power as Isaias downs trees, power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1687,4869,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24,2986],"class_list":["post-877360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-climate","tag-climate-crisis","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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