The first hurricane in two years to make landfall on U.S. soil hit the Florida Panhandle Friday night with over 100 mile an hour winds as Isaias downed trees, damaged buildings, and cut power to nearly a half million residents.
\n\nWith uncanny timing, the Category 2 storm slammed into the coast near Deston, Florida at 8:30 p.m. (CT), exactly two years to the day and the same clock time of hurricane Milton’s landfall near Sarasota two years earlier at 8:30 p.m. (ET), according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data.
\n\nAfter hitting the cost, it rapidly weakened over Alabama and has transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported Saturday at 4 a.m. (CT) in its final advisory on the storm.
\n\n“The cyclone should move northward and north-northeastward this weekend and gradually weaken as it moves across Tennessee and Ohio Valleys,” the advisory concluded.
\n\nReports of the aftermath have been slow to come in Saturday morning with no word yet of the damage that may have been caused by an expected six-to-nine-foot storm surge or whether it even occurred.
\n\nHowever, as the storm hit the coast it provided plenty of visuals on social media from storm…
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