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Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday October 9 as a category 2 storm, becoming the first Atlantic hurricane of the unusually quiet 2026 season after reaching category 3 strength offshore. The storm killed at least four people, mostly from falling trees, left roughly half a million customers without power, and caused flooding on highways across the Florida panhandle, Alabama and Mississippi, where governors had declared states of emergency and millions were placed under evacuation orders ahead of landfall. GDACS estimated about 567,000 people were affected by category-1-strength winds or higher. As Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone and tracked northeast through Alabama, Georgia and into Tennessee, the National Hurricane Center and Weather Prediction Center continued flash-flood warnings, citing a continuing flooding and landslide risk across the Southern Appalachians. The NHC issued its final advisory on the system October 10, handing continuing updates to the Weather Prediction Center as the flood threat persisted.