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Remnants of Danny Move Inland
Associated Press
Along the coast, people forced out of their homes over the weekend, when Danny dumped 2 1/2 feet of rain in just three days, returned to survey the damage. "We pretty much lost everything we had," said Sharon Williams, who was among the 100 people who fled Fish River over the weekend. The short-lived hurricane, which was downgraded to a tropical storm Saturday, was just a low pressure area by today, drifting north with 12 mph winds. On Saturday, it packed steady winds of 80 mph. State officials said they did not have firm numbers on how many people were evacuated because of the flooding, but the Red Cross said it provided shelter to about 2,000 people Saturday. At the storm's peak, 44,000 homes and business were without power in Mobile and Baldwin counties; fewer than 400 were still blacked out today. The hurricane killed one man caught at sea in a sailboat. Another man died of a heart attack while trying to tie up a boat. On Monday, a sparsely populated county 80 miles north of Mobile picked up nine inches of rain in five hours, causing flash floods on small streams that fill easily and drain slowly in the flat countryside. Several families had to be rescued from their homes by boat, and others were plucked from cars along flooded roads, said Choctaw County Sheriff Donald Lolley. "A lot of people ran off the road and we had to rescue them from vehicles," Lolley said as the rain pounded the region through the afternoon.
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