Their return flight home was canceled, so they were stuck in Alabama until Friday. In Orange Beach, Alabama, Chris Parks, a tourist from Nashua, New Hampshire, spent the night monitoring the storm and taking care of his infant child as the winds battered his family's hotel room. Two large casino boats broke loose from a dock where they were undergoing construction work in Alabama. Water covered Mississippi beaches and parts of the highway that runs parallel to them. Low-lying properties in southeastern Louisiana were swamped by the surge. Sally's effects were felt all along the northern Gulf Coast. He likened the storm's plodding pace to that of Hurricane Harvey, which swamped Houston in 2017. "Sally has a characteristic that isn't often seen and that's a slow forward speed, and that's going to exacerbate the flooding," said Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the hurricane center. Forecasters warned that heavy rainfall would continue into Thursday as the storm moved inland over Alabama and into central Georgia, with the threat of serious flash flooding. The storm still had winds of 100 mph (155 kph) more than two hours after it reached land. National Hurricane Center forecaster Stacy Stewart said the rain will be "catastrophic and life-threatening" over portions of the Gulf Coast. "Obviously this shows what we've known for a long time with storms - they are unpredictable," Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson IV said. This for a storm that, during the weekend, appeared to be headed for New Orleans, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) to the west. "The sheriff's office will be there until we can no longer safely be out there, and then and only then will we pull our deputies in," Simmons said late Tuesday. In Escambia County, Chief Sheriff's Deputy Chip Simmons vowed to keep deputies out helping residents as long as possible. Florida officials shut down a section of Interstate 10 near Pensacola because of high winds. A curfew was imposed in Gulf Shores hours before the storm's arrival. Nearly a half-million homes and businesses had lost electricity by early Wednesday, according to the site. "The power trucks are the only ones above water, and they're the biggest," Muse said. Her 8-year-old son played with toys underneath the hotel room's desk as Muse peered out the window, watching rain fly by in sheets. The power failed early in the morning, making it too stuffy to sleep. Before sunrise, water was up to the doors of Jordan Muse's car outside the Pensacola hotel where her family took shelter after fleeing their mobile home a few miles away.
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