3 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of flash floods across the Southeast U.S.

(AP) — Isaias roared onto the Florida Panhandle, ripping roofs off homes and condominiums, before it moved north Saturday, bringing torrential rain and the threat of flash floods and tornadoes across the Southeast. Earlier this Saturday morning, a sheriff in Florida's panhandle confirmed that a woman died when a tree crashed into her home. On Saturday afternoon, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey confirmed two Alabamians lost their lives.

The storm weakened overnight and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but remained a threat.“The risk of flooding is still high,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday morning. “Sometimes these things happen a day or two days after the storm goes through.

So the flooding story is not over.”Despite warnings of life-threatening storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast remained open and were free of downed trees and power lines typically seen after major hurricanes.Scattered damage across Florida's PanhandleOfficials across the Florida Panhandle were still surveying the damage.In Escambia County, Sheriff Chip Simmons said on Facebook that one woman died after a tree fell on her home. He did not provide additional details.Hurricane-force winds blew the roof off a hotel in Pensacola and the city’s mayor said the airport “took some damage” while power was out downtown. The storm flattened a boathouse in Destin and flooded streets.Residents were out early picking through the debris.

A worker in a condominium parking lot in Panama City swept up piles of insulation and pieces of metal from the building. Nearby, people were putting back beach chairs that had been tossed about.Tim Mowry, who lives in Pensacola, acknowledged he had a little “trepidation” as the storm approached. It was the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and his first ever, so he spent hundreds of dollars buying gas and filling his propane tanks.“For my first one, I’ll take it.

It was in the grand scheme of things uneventful,” he said. “I mean it’s a storm, don’t get me wrong, and we had some wind. I got some fence down in my yard,” he continued.

“But I was expecting the worst.”Isaias hits Alabama with devastating windsIsaias charged north into Alabama with tropical-force winds overnight.One person died when a tree fell on a house in Birmingham, said Cor… At least two people have died after the first hurricane of the Atlantic season roared onto the Florida Panhandle before carving a path into the Southeast.