{"id":88974,"date":"2020-09-17T06:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=88974"},"modified":"2020-09-17T06:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:14:41","slug":"auto-draft-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/09\/17\/auto-draft-206\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Sally Causes \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 A slow-moving Hurricane Sally, now a tropical storm, is pelting the Deep South of the United States with heavy rains and high winds, causing people to be trapped in floodwaters.<\/p>\n

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The storm made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistoric and catastrophic flooding, including widespread moderate to major river flooding, is unfolding,\u201d the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n

According to The Associated Press, Sally damaged boats, felled palm trees, blew the roofs off some houses and left more than 500,000 without power.<\/p>\n

By Wednesday afternoon, the storm had been downgraded to a tropical storm with winds of 110 kph, but the rain may be the bigger threat as the storm was moving at only 7 kph.<\/p>\n

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Tropic Isles condominiums are seen after Hurricane Sally moved through the area, Sept. 16, 2020, in Orange Beach, Ala.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Florida, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said the rains would likely require thousands to flee the area because of rising waters over the next few days.<\/p>\n

“There are entire communities that we\u2019re going to have to evacuate,\u201d he told the AP. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tremendous operation over the next several days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Escambia authorities announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the next three days. They also said there have been 377 rescues from water-stricken areas.<\/p>\n

The amount of rain is devastating, with nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station reporting 61 centimeters of precipitation and downtown Pensacola seeing almost a meter of rain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not common to measure rain in these amounts, forecaster David Eversole told the AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cSally\u2019s moving so slowly, so it just keeps pounding and pounding and pounding the area with tropical rain and just powerful winds. It\u2019s just a nightmare,\u201d Eversole said.<\/p>\n

Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, compared Sally to 2017\u2019s Hurricane Harvey, which soaked Houston with rain for days and flooded much of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cSally has a characteristic that isn\u2019t often seen and that\u2019s a slow forward speed, and that\u2019s going to exacerbate the flooding,\u201d Rappaport told the AP.<\/p>\n

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency for several counties.<\/p>\n

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A boat is washed up near a road after Hurricane Sally moved through the area, Sept. 16, 2020, in Orange Beach, Ala.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heavy rains are also expected as far north as parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Sally may also lead to tornadoes across portions of the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southwestern Georgia.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump issued emergency declarations for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and he tweeted that residents should listen to state and local leaders.<\/p>\n

Sally is the second storm to hit the Gulf Coast in less than three weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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