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Isaias damages the Southeast as floods and fires displace Californians (video)

Storms damaged homes and left prolonged outages across the Southeast, while surf, flooding and fires displaced Californians. Officials and news organizations reported storm-related deaths in Florida and Alabama. The Alert Pulse video for Oct 5 – 11, 2026: the emergency alerts sent across the United States, told night by night from the report's own figures, with the full report and its data one link away.

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That was one of 3,610 emergency warnings across the country in the week of October 5. The week, day by day. The busiest day was October 11, with 783 warnings. Friday, 5:35 PM. Bay County, Florida: a considerable damage threat. By 8:14 PM, a flash flood emergency in Okaloosa County, with a catastrophic damage threat. Jayme Mitich, Gulf Breeze resident, speaking to Associated Press: The noise got so loud, and I just kept hearing things break and crash into everything The National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama wrote: Flash flood emergency for southern and coastal okaloosa county, florida Sunday, 1:09 PM: a particularly dangerous situation in Franklin County, North Carolina. Sunday, 6:21 AM: a local agency alert in Riverside County, California. Okaloosa County, Florida, was under a warning on 8 of the week's 7 days. It will happen again. Know when it is your street.

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