That included in Gulf Shores, Alabama, where homes flooded and trees toppled onto roofs, city spokesman Grant Brown said. Sally made landfall as a Category 2 storm near Gulf Shores around 4:45 a.m. CT with sustained winds of 105 mph. Floodwaters have turned streets into rivers in Pensacola, Florida, images from the Associated Press show. Sally hit Alabama 16 years to the day after the state's last landfalling hurricane, the Category 3 Hurricane Ivan, struck. Sally is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year -- the most by this point in a year since 2004.

Source: The Nation September 16, 2020 15:07 UTC