NBC South Florida reported<\/a> the woman and her husband were inside the home when a tree fell on it.\u00a0Family said the woman died as she was lying next to the father.<\/p>\n\u201cMy dad got smashed under the tree,\u201d the man, who was not identified, told the station. His stepmother, he said, “went very quickly.”<\/p>\n
The son said his father was pinned down by the tree inside the home but was able to text him using his smart watch.<\/p>\n
“My wife is gone,” the man quoted his father as saying.<\/p>\n
The son said he has spent much of the aftermath trying to help clear trees.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been dropping trees all morning, crying and carrying on,” he said. “And me, I’m just angry.”<\/p>\n
Another man in Florida was found dead in his garage with a generator running inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two people died in Alabama, one after a tree fell onto their house in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim’s neighbor, Orlando Vickers Jr., described his neighbor as a “great man.”<\/p>\n
“We had about 20 family members. They came in the house just now and they were crying and sobbing and it was just, my heart went out for the family and everything else,” Vickers said. “He will be truly missed. I told them whatever the family needs whatever. I’m already helping out now with the tree that my friend is cutting right now.”<\/p>\n
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, Friday night before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nearly 900,000 homes and businesses across Florida, Alabama and Georgia were without power Saturday morning.\u00a0 As of Saturday night, that number was down to nearly half a million customers.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a9 WRAL<\/p>\n
Florida governor Ron DeSantis said the state completed 150 emergency missions.\u00a0Flooding is still impacting areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross North Carolina is on the way to Florida and Alabama\u00a0to help support relief efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two volunteers are from Rock Hill South Carolina and the other two are from Wilmington.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They will be working with residents impacted by Isaias.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsaias’ remnants remain a threat<\/p>\n
North Carolina and South Carolina are at risk for post-cyclone tornadoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Saturday night, the U.S. Storm Prediction Center posted 13 tornado reports within the path of Isaias’s remnants, most along the border between Georgia and South Carolina. One storm in Waynesboro, Georgia destroyed some homes and overturned farm equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A tornado reported by the South Carolina Emergency Management Division in Allendale damaged four homes, the Storm Prediction Center said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least four people have died after Hurricane Isaias made landfall.\u00a0 Florida officials confirmed two people died in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5183,8609,192,2808,141081,368458,79,88110],"class_list":["post-878354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alabama","tag-death","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-aftermath","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-science","tag-storm-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878354","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=878354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}