Four dead and thousands without power after Hurricane Isaias lashes US

Madeline Halpert

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Watch: Florida thrashed as Hurricane Isaias makes landfall


Four people have died and hundreds of thousands are without power after Hurricane Isaias battered parts of the southern US with powerful winds and heavy rain.

Officials reported two deaths each in the states of Alabama and Florida, which included people who were killed when trees fell on their houses.

An estimated 500,000 people in total were without power in several states as of Saturday evening, according to tracker PowerOutage.

Isaias made landfall in Florida late on Friday with maximum sustained winds of 105mph (168km/h) before being downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone.

The storm felled trees and ripped the roofs off buildings. Alabama, Florida and Georgia all declared states of emergency ahead of its arrival, while both Florida and Alabama issued mandatory evacuation orders to thousands of people.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Simon is bearing down on Mexico's Pacific coast and has strengthened to category four. It is expected to make landfall sometime overnight.

Tropical Storm Rachel, also in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to hit southern California later on Saturday.

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The roof was blown off an apartment complex in Milton, Florida

Hurricane Isaias Strikes Destin | 668K Without Power, 9-FT Surge & Deadly Flash Floods

🔴 Hurricane Isaias Strikes Destin | 668K Without Power, 9-FT Surge & Deadly Flash Floods

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Oct 10, 2026  

Hurricane Isaias made landfall in Destin, Florida late Thursday night — packing 105 MPH sustained winds, a devastating 9-foot storm surge, and catastrophic flash flooding across the Gulf Coast. As of this morning, 668,000 customers are without power across Florida and Alabama, with Mobile County and Baldwin County taking the hardest hit. Flash Flood Emergencies were issued across southern Okaloosa County as 4–7 inches of rain dropped in just hours. Storm surge warnings remain active from the Alabama-Florida border to Grayton Beach. Isaias is now pushing north through Alabama at 20 MPH — tornado watches, additional flooding, and downed power lines are still active threats RIGHT NOW.

This is the first U.S. hurricane landfall in two years — and it happened fast. Isaias went from a tropical depression to a Category 2 in just 48 hours, thanks to record-warm Gulf waters and collapsed wind shear. The Gulf was basically rocket fuel.

⚠️ Turn Around, Don’t Drown. 12 inches of water can float your car. 2 feet will sweep away an SUV. Do NOT drive around barricades — the road may be completely washed out underneath.

Stay safe. Monitor weather.gov, floridadisaster.org, or ema.alabama.gov for real-time updates.

Lesson learned: hurricane season isn’t over until it’s over. One quiet season can end in 48 hours. Have your go-bag ready, know your evacuation zone, and never wait for the last warning.

Hurricane Dolly? Next tropical storm developing in Atlantic with poorly timed name

Updated: Aug. 27, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
|Published: Aug. 27, 2026, 6:26 a.m.

Dolly Parton presents the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

By Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com


A new tropical storm is developing in the Atlantic that could be named, unfortunately, “Hurricane Dolly.”

WCAX reports a tropical cyclone appears likely to develop in the Atlantic basin within the next few days. The weather development is being monitored as it has a “high chance” of developing into a tropical storm or hurricane within the next two to seven days.

The storm will be named Dolly as it is the next name on the 2026 list of Atlantic hurricanes. Different names are used to identify different storms during hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

That means Tropical Storm Dolly or Hurricane Dolly could emerge less than a week after the death of Dolly Parton. The beloved country singer, actress and philanthropist died Tuesday at age 80.

“If it becomes a hurricane, it should be a category 9 to 5,” one Facebook user joked.

“She’s going after Jolene,” another commented.

“I would prefer a star be named after her so she could sparkle down on all of us,” a third wrote.

While it may seem like unfortunate timing, “Dolly” was chosen for the list of hurricane names six years ago. The World Meteorological Organization chooses the names, which are recycled every six years.

Jamaica: Update on Hurricane Relief Efforts

By Development Office
10 November 2025

Father Bede Mullens OP reports from Jamaica on the relief efforts supported by our donors.

Assistance in our Parishes

We are based in Kingston, which mercifully was left largely unscathed by the hurricane. Nonetheless, some of our poorer parishioners in August Town, an impoverished neighbourhood, did lose roofs, walls, and in one case, pretty much the whole house; St Martin’s Missions funding has enabled purchase of materials for repairs.

We are also conscious that, after recent panic-buying, some food items are hard to come by, and food prices on the whole are set to go up in the coming months as the part of the island hardest hit is a major agricultural area. On Friday, we distributed 300 meals to students at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus and to several of our less well-off parishioners, and we are trying to arrange sponsorship from local benefactors for students in need to receive support for food and personal hygiene items.

Fr Peter Hunter assisting in food distribution

Helping the Worst-Hit Areas

As regards the island-wide situation, we have been able to establish contact with a couple of parishes in the vicinity of Montego Bay and, for the time being, are focussing our attention on assisting them. We have coordinated provision of basic building materials (tarpaulin, plywood, nails) and essentials like water and baby food to be transported to Sacred Heart church in Reading, near Montego Bay, and St Agnes’ church in Chester Castle (photos below). One of the churches is currently operating as a shelter with just half a roof! So the arrival of the tarpaulins tomorrow will be particularly useful.

As the roads open and we are able to make contact with further parishes, we will be looking to assist their efforts at rebuilding and supporting their local people on the basis of personal contacts. This small-scale way of promoting the relief effort is particularly valuable for building up bonds of charity among the Catholics within our local island Church, and indeed throughout the global Church. So far people have donated to our St Martin’s Missions Appeal from across the UK, the USA, Europe, and the Far East. There is, of course, a massive need for material assistance, but for us it is very important that St Martin’s Missions bears witness to our worldwide solidarity in the Body of Christ. We belong to a Church that is at once truly catholic and truly one, at once global and personal.

Photos of St Agnes church, Chester Castle

St Martin’s Missions has not directly supported this church, but Fr Bede has been coordinating assistance from Aquinas parish and other local benefactors in Jamaica to help them.

More Help Needed

The Dominican Friars in Jamaica and Grenada rely on funds raised in the UK to support their work of spreading the gospel and providing material help to the poor. This year, as well as having to raise funds to support these usual needs, we are committed to providing additional funds in support of the Hurricane Melissa relief efforts.

Hundreds of donors have already given in the past ten days. You can add your gift now at www.english.op.org/missions

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First steps to relief

Black River residents grateful as critical supplies arrive in St Elizabeth

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Published:Saturday | November 1, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

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Members of the Jamaica Defence Force hand out care packages to residents of Crane Road in St Elizabeth.

Three separate vehicles carrying food, water and other basic supplies drew long lines of residents desperate to get anything as night fell over the hurricane-ravaged town of Black River, St Elizabeth, on Friday.

The town remains without electricity, water and Internet connectivity, three days after the category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica.

One of the trucks was provided by Jamaican international recording artiste Shaggy, real name Orville Burrell. The others were an army vehicle and one provided by a popular fast food chain.

“Thank you very much,” Cynthia White, 53, whispered to a soldier after she secured a care package of basic food items.

'Providentially hindered': American pastor stranded in Jamaica amid 15-day water-only fast

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, October 30, 2025

Pastor Bill Devlin helps residents of Jamaica clean up after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island nation, Oct. 29, 2025. | Bill Devlin

An American pastor stranded in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa is currently in the middle of a 15-day fast and is encouraging others to fast in prayer for those impacted by the storm that has left hundreds of thousands without power and dozens dead across the Caribbean.

Pastor Bill Devlin — a veteran of the Vietnam War and Purple Heart recipient who serves as the outreach pastor for Infinity Bible Church in Bronx, New York, and runs the ministries REDEEM! and Widows and Orphans — first arrived in Jamaica on Oct. 23 to deliver a speech at a pro-life Christian conference and officiated a wedding for "a brother in Jesus that has traveled the world" with him on Sunday.

After the wedding, Devlin learned that the airports were closed and flights were canceled in anticipation of Hurricane Melissa.

"I was providentially hindered here for a reason," Devlin insisted. "I'm just waiting on God to direct my steps at this point."

Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Jamaica on Tuesday and, as of Thursday morning, is now a Category 2 storm moving away from the Bahamas toward Bermuda. At least 30 people have been killed across Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, with about two dozen killed by an overflowing river in Haiti. The storm caused widespread power outages, road blockages and communications issues.

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Project Phoenix

Project Phoenix

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May 7, 2017The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, along with their partners from government, business, and social services communities, is developing a plan to identify and address the multitude of issues that would arise should a catastrophic event occur in the Tampa Bay area. For this plan, the Tampa Bay area is defined as the following counties: 

Citrus 

Hardee 

Hernando 

Hillsborough 

Manatee 

Pasco 

Pinellas 

Polk 

Sumter 

Hurricane Phoenix is a fictitious storm created to simulate the effects of a worst‐case scenario. With input from Tampa Bay area emergency management agencies and the local office of the National Weather Service (NWS), a simulated storm was developed with a track and intensity that would devastate the entire Tampa Bay region. The NWS generated National Hurricane Center advisories, local hurricane statements, and data files that simulate the hurricane’s location and intensity from its formation in the Caribbean Sea, through landfall in Pinellas County, to the hurricane’s exit from the east coast of Florida into the Atlantic Ocean. The maps and information presented in this packet are based upon the data files developed for this simulated storm. The simulated parameters of Hurricane Phoenix were input into HAZUS‐MH, the risk assessment tool that uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) standard methodology to measure the effects of real and simulated hazard events like hurricane winds and flooding. As one might expect, a storm of the size and strength of Hurricane Phoenix would create almost unthinkable damage to the area’s homes, businesses, infrastructure, overall economy, and social systems that are currently in place. The goal of this planning process is to develop strategies that will help the Tampa Bay region to recover and rebuild after such a devastating catastrophe. 

The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council would like to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for their time, effort, and video products that support the making of the catastrophic plan scenario video. Thank You. 

• Dr. Neil Frank - Former Director, National Hurricane Center
• Steve Jerve - Chief Meteorologist, WFLA-TV
• Dr. Steve Lyons - Tropical Weather Expert, The Weather Channel
• Daniel Noah - Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service - Ruskin (Tampa Bay Area)
• Tammie Souza - Chief Meteorologist, WTSP-TV
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• Hillsborough County Hazard Mitigation Division
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Geographic Channel
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Pinellas County Communications
• Pinellas PCC-TV
• Pinellas County Emergency Management
• Sarasota County Emergency Management
• United States Coast Guard
• The Weather Channel
• WFLA-TV, Tampa
• WTSP-TV, Tampa 

This video was produced by URS Creative Services - Tampa 

• Brad Courtney - Video Production Manager Creative input provided by the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council Betti Johnson - Principal Planner and Project Lead
• Brady Smith - Senior Planner 

Copyright 2010 - Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council

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