Storm Isaias Kills 4 and Cuts Power to 500,000 as It Pushes Into West Virginia
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Updated · DW (English) · Oct 11
Storm Isaias Kills 4 and Cuts Power to 500,000 as It Pushes Into West Virginia
3 articles · Updated · DW (English) · Oct 11
Summary
Four deaths and more than 500,000 outages were reported Saturday as Isaias weakened into a post-tropical cyclone and tracked from Tennessee and Kentucky toward West Virginia.
The storm made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane, ripping roofs off buildings, downing trees and prompting emergency declarations in Florida, Alabama and Georgia.
About 5,000 Florida National Guard soldiers and airmen were activated as officials warned of flash flooding, urban flooding and possible landslides across the Southern Appalachians.
The National Hurricane Center also warned of wind gusts, additional outages, tornado risk in eastern Georgia and the Carolinas, and life-threatening surf and rip currents along the Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico and western Cuba.