Storm Deaths

Hurricane Isaias tore into Florida's Gulf Coast Friday night. At least four people died. Power vanished for hundreds of thousands across three states.

The storm came ashore near Destin as a Category 2 hurricane, winds clocked at 105 mph, the BBC reported. By Saturday, just a post-tropical cyclone. PowerOutage.us counted roughly 500,000 customers without electricity across Florida, Alabama and Georgia by Saturday evening, the BBC said. ABC News put the initial toll far higher, near 800,000 customers across the three states as the storm made landfall.

In Escambia County, Florida, a falling tree crushed a woman's house and killed her, Sheriff Chip Simmons said, according to both the BBC and the Guardian. A man in the same county died of carbon monoxide poisoning after he ran a generator inside an unventilated garage, Simmons said. Four of his relatives, ages four to 72, were treated and are expected to survive, the Guardian reported.

Governor Kay Ivey confirmed two deaths in Alabama without giving details, the BBC reported. The Guardian named one victim, a man killed when a tree fell on his Birmingham house, citing fire chief Cory Moon. A second victim died behind the wheel in Barbour County, killed in a crash involving a downed tree, according to state emergency official Josh Johnson.

Florida, Alabama and Georgia had declared states of emergency before Isaias arrived, and Florida and Alabama went further, ordering mandatory evacuations for thousands of residents, the BBC reported. Trump approved federal emergency declarations for all three states, clearing the way for disaster aid, the Guardian reported. Asked about storm preparations Friday, Trump told reporters outside the White House the response was "under control," ABC News reported.

Rain was next. Forecasters at the National Weather Service warned Sunday that the storm's remnants could trigger flash flooding into the Appalachians and parts of the Carolinas, the Guardian reported. A tornado threat would persist through the weekend across the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the Carolinas, the National Hurricane Center told ABC News.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the state had received no search and rescue requests right after landfall, a sign of limited damage. "There's also a lot of hazards post-storm that people should be careful of," he told Fox News, according to ABC News.