Hurricane Isaias leaves trail of destruction across the US Gulf Coast

What the report says

Residents across Florida, Alabama and nearby parts of the southeastern United States have started cleaning up after Hurricane Isaias, which Al Jazeera, citing The Associated Press, said made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday as the first Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2026 season. The storm then moved inland through Alabama before weakening, but it still left widespread damage along the Gulf Coast.

By Sunday afternoon, about 356,000 customers were still without electricity in southern Alabama and northwestern Florida, according to PowerOutage.com. The article said the storm’s peak outages affected nearly 800,000 homes and businesses. Florida Power and Light said crews from Florida and more than two dozen other states were helping restore service. At least four deaths have been linked to the storm, according to the report.

Al Jazeera’s coverage described severe impacts in places including Pensacola, Milton and Destin, where roofs were torn off buildings, trees fell across homes and roads, and a boathouse was flattened. Pensacola officials warned of drinking water shortages and advised residents to boil tap water, while the city’s airport was closed indefinitely because of damage.

The storm’s broader significance is the scale of disruption: power loss, debris, road closures and flooding risks continued even after Isaias weakened into a post-tropical system. The National Weather Service also said the storm could still bring flash flooding to parts of the mid-Atlantic region.