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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 People in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama cleaned up after Hurricane Isaias swept through as the storm’s remnants caused flooding in North Carolina on Sunday, while powerful Pacific Ocean waves stirred up by Rachel, a former tropical storm, battered the coast of Southern California.<\/p>\n
In western North Carolina, rivers overflowed as heavy rainfall raised the risk of flash and urban flooding, according to the National Weather Service. It said tornadoes were possible in parts of Virginia and North Carolina as well as dangerous surf and rip current conditions along the Gulf and southeastern Atlantic coasts.<\/p>\n
At least four deaths were linked to Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops. The storm then roared into Alabama with tropical-force winds before heading farther north.<\/p>\n
In Florida\u2019s Escambia County, Sheriff Chip Simmons said a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home and a man died of carbon monoxide fumes from a generator running in his garage.<\/p>\n
One person died when a tree fell on a house in Birmingham, said Cory Moon, the city\u2019s fire chief. A second storm-related death in Alabama was attributed to a motor vehicle crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County, said Josh Johnson of the state\u2019s emergency management agency.<\/p>\n
In Burke County, North Carolina, an unhoused male and female were camping when floodwaters from the Catawba River caught them off guard. They were rescued, along with their dog, according to a spokesperson for the county emergency management agency. Separately, a woman trapped inside her car in floodwaters was freed outside of Morganton.<\/p>\n
In McDowell County, North Carolina, just west of Burke County, first responders said they dealt with five landslides and voluntary evacuations overnight Saturday into Sunday as they responded to flooded roads and streams overflowing their banks.<\/p>\n
Nearly a dozen local weather stations in the western North Carolina county reported torrential 24-hour rainfall totals from about 5 inches (13 centimeters) to as much as 9.57 inches (24 centimeters) at the fire\/rescue station in Enola. The weather service said rainfall was diminishing in the area but that rapid river rises and flooding remained possible.<\/p>\n
Hurricane-force winds in the Florida Panhandle blew the roof off a Pensacola hotel. The storm flattened a boathouse in Destin and ripped away part of the facade of a high-rise in Panama City Beach.<\/p>\n
At a church in Pensacola where the United Cajun Navy was distributing supplies Sunday morning, a line of hundreds of cars stretched around the block. Yvette Haro said she arrived at 5 a.m. after being turned away the previous day because supplies had run out.<\/p>\n
With a 10-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter at home, she said it’s hard to go to stores and wait in long lines. She was looking for water, paper towels, toilet paper and cleaning supplies.<\/p>\n
While her home didn’t suffer any damage, the loss of electricity was making things difficult, Haro said. \u201cThe biggest thing is our food going bad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
About 226,000 customers remained without power Sunday evening in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama, according to poweroutage.com. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he expected nearly everyone to have it restored by Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Rachel became a post-tropical cyclone overnight, bringing unusually big waves to Southern California.<\/p>\n
Waves battered a century-old wooden boardwalk on the Long Beach peninsula and forced homeowners to evacuate. The strip of multimillion-dollar oceanfront properties, along with much of the Southern California coastline, was already reeling from Hurricane Marie in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis area is completely shattered and vulnerable,\u201d Jack Gordon, a Long Beach real estate agent, said.<\/p>\n
The Pacific Ocean is abnormally warm, about 7 to 8 degrees F warmer than normal for this time of year, due to the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern, said Joe Sirard of the weather service in Oxnard, California<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we have this warm water, it actually causes the ocean to rise above the normal predicted tide levels,\u201d Sirard said. That’s affected by Rachel’s ocean swells and wind gusts. The City of Long Beach placed dozens of 3,000-pound (1,360-kilogram) sandbags along the stretch of peninsula where waves tore apart the historic boardwalk and smashed against coastal homes.<\/p>\n
Jazmin Evers, a 37-year-old mother who runs a pottery business from her Long Beach rental home, said the community is on edge. \u201cEvery time the tide goes down everyone just kind of takes a breath \u2014 except, of course, the people whose buildings are being destroyed,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen the tide comes back up, everybody\u2019s nerves kind of ramp back up.\u201d Rachel dissipated over Las Vegas as it drenched deserts across the Southwest. An inch (2.4 centimeters) of rain fell in the city Sunday, leading to gushing water and flooded streets on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n
In the Pacific, Hurricane Simon was a Category 4 storm as it pounded Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast Sunday, its eye remaining just offshore as its most powerful winds and rain slammed people living between the Sierra Madre and the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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