Floodwaters Rising in Mississippi as Hurricane Sally Nears

Hurricane Sally is slogging toward the northern Gulf Coast, where it threatens to unleash “historic” amounts of rain that could trigger “extreme life-threatening flash flooding” through at least Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Floodwaters are already rising in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The long-duration storm could produce as much as 30 inches of rain between southeastern Mississippi and the western Florida Panhandle, with widespread amounts of 10 to 20 inches.

Heavy rain and tropical-storm force winds have already begun and the storm’s impacts are expected to intensify as Sally inches ashore into Wednesday near the Mississippi-Alabama border.

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