'This is outside of our window!' Residents of Plash Island, Alabama, spotted what appears to be a 10- to 12- foot alligator swimming outside their home after Sally made landfall nearby.
The latestJonathan Bachman/ReutersA car drives down Government Street during Hurricane Sally in Mobile, Ala., Sept. 16, 2020.
Officials in Baldwin County, Alabama, reported"major to catastrophic flooding," urging residents to stay off the roads. In Pensacola, located in Escambia County, where wind gusts reached 92 mph, the flooding is extremely dangerous.Trent Airhart wades through flood waters, Sept. 16, 2020, in downtown Pensacola, Fla.Downtown Pensacola was submerged under 3 to 4 feet of rain Wednesday morning."Flooded roadways and intersections, along with hazardous debris in roadways , have become too numerous to list," the Pensacola Police Department said."Please stay off the roadways now.
"One of the biggest problems that our police department had today was getting cars that would drive into running water and get stuck. So it wasn't people trying to evacuate during the middle of the storm it was the people, sightseers, who wanted to get out after the storm," he said."So right now, if you could stay home, wait for us to get through and then we can get out there and see everything.""We used to pack a lot of people into a shelter.
Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk and MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews conduct critical incident search and rescue overflights of the areas impacted by Hurricane Sally in GulfPort, Miss., Sept. 16, 2020.A tattered American flag is seen as the winds and rain from Hurricane Sally pass through the area on Sept. 16, 2020 in Mobile, Ala.
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