226,000 Still Dark After Isaias as Remnants Push North

About 226,000 customers remained without power Sunday evening in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama, ClickOrlando reports, citing poweroutage.com. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he expected nearly everyone to have it back by Tuesday night.

At least four deaths were linked to Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which came ashore Friday near Destin as a Category 2. In Florida's Escambia County, Sheriff Chip Simmons said a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home and a man died from carbon monoxide fumes from a generator running in his garage, ClickOrlando reports. In Alabama, one person died when a tree fell on a house in Birmingham, said fire chief Cory Moon, and a second death came in a crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County, said Josh Johnson of the state emergency management agency.

Hurricane-force winds blew the roof off a Pensacola hotel, flattened a boathouse in Destin and tore away part of the facade of a high-rise in Panama City Beach, ClickOrlando reports. The storm then moved into Alabama with tropical-force winds before heading north.

Its remnants now bring heavy rain and flooding risks to the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic. In western North Carolina, rivers overflowed and the National Weather Service warned of flash and urban flooding, with tornadoes possible in parts of Virginia and North Carolina. In McDowell County, first responders dealt with five landslides and voluntary evacuations overnight Saturday into Sunday, and local weather stations reported 24-hour rainfall totals from about 5 inches to as much as 9.57 inches at the fire and rescue station in Enola. In neighboring Burke County, two people camping along the Catawba River were rescued with their dog when floodwaters caught them off guard, a county spokesperson said, and a woman trapped in her car in floodwaters outside Morganton was freed.