HURRICANE ISAIAS Kills 4, Leaves 900,000 Without Power; 440,000+ Out in Florida

Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin on the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph sustained winds and gusts up to 116 mph. Within hours, nearly 900,000 homes and businesses across Florida, Alabama, and Georgia were plunged into darkness—with over 440,000 outages in Florida alone. At least four people were killed—two in Escambia County, Florida, and two in Alabama—as days of heavy rain saturated the ground, causing hurricane-force gusts to uproot trees onto homes and power lines. From Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach to Panama City Beach and the Big Bend, this video breaks down the county-by-county devastation, the timeline of the outages, the meteorology behind the grid failure, and the massive restoration effort involving 16,000+ linemen and 5,400 National and State Guard troops.