Hurricane Sally hits US Gulf Coast, brings ’historic and catastrophic’ floods

Hurricane Sally, which made landfall early Wednesday near Alabama’s Gulf Shores as a Category 2 storm, uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers. The US National Hurricane Center described the flooding in the Alabama-Florida coast as ’historic and catastrophic’. The storm was moving at a slow 8km/h (5mph) pace, but NHC said it will pick up speed.