In the oyster and fishing town of Bayou La Batre, how Mr. “We’ll find a safe space where we can get to praying.” If the water gets high enough, the family would retreat to the back of the house, which is a bit higher. During Katrina, the water had lapped up to the top of his porch, about two feet off the ground. Johnson, 47, said that floodwaters had gone to the bottom of a stop sign across the street in the past. There was nothing to do but watch the rain and see how high it would go. The streets were mostly empty, but many residents had chosen to stay home to ride out a storm that was expected to deposit more than two feet of rain.Īlonzo Johnson, a high school football coach, was sitting on the front porch of the 80-year-old Craftsman home where he lives with his family south of downtown. Intense waterfalls of rain began pelting Mobile, an old port city of about 190,000 people, on Tuesday morning. Officials urged people living along the coast and in low-lying areas to clear out, taking advantage of the storm’s snail-like pace to avoid being trapped in floodwaters. including metropolitan New Orleans - and east of Navarre to Indian Pass, Fla. Louis, Miss., near the Louisiana border, to Navarre, near the tip of the Florida panhandle - a distance that includes most of Mississippi’s and Alabama’s coastlines.Ī tropical storm warning covered the area west of the Pearl River to Grand Isle, La. “I can tell you from many years of experience and many times passed, I’ve seen streets and neighborhoods quickly fill up with five, six, seven and even more depth of water in a short period of time,” Sam Cochran, the Mobile County sheriff, said during a briefing on Tuesday.Ī hurricane warning remained in effect for an area stretching eastward from Bay St. Forecasters from the center also warned of life-threatening flash floods. The rainfall would compound a storm surge that could reach as high as four to six feet around Dauphin Island and the Mobile Bay on the Alabama coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. The rainfall could reach as high as 30 inches in some areas from the Florida panhandle to Mississippi. Still, officials and meteorologists said there was a measure of certainty in the threat that Sally posed. On Tuesday evening, the forecast said it was continuing on a path aimed for Mobile Bay, Ala., likely making landfall Wednesday morning. The confusion came from the storm’s apparent fickleness, as the forecast constantly evolved in recent days, with predictions that included reaching west of New Orleans or hitting Biloxi, Miss.
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