Crews worked to repair downed power lines and clear toppled trees after Tropical Storm Fred moved over the Florida Panhandle and trekked inland, spreading heavy rains. Authorities warned of the risk of scattered urban and flash floods, even as it weakened.
No deaths have been reported from Fred, though thousands of Florida Panhandle residents were reported without power in the hours after its late Monday landfall. Emergency crews in the Panhandle were repairing downed power lines and clearing toppled trees in Fred’s aftermath.
In the U.S., Fred crashed ashore Monday afternoon near Cape San Blas in the Florida Panhandle and by Tuesday morning it was crossing southeast Alabama into Georgia. A forecast tracked showed the storm would spend much of Tuesday over western and north Georgia and then enter the southern Appalachians by Tuesday evening before moving into the mid-Atlantic states.Top sustained winds dropped to 40 mph overnight and Fred was moving north-northeast at 13 mph .
Meanwhile, Grace lashed earthquake-damaged Haiti as a tropical depression on Monday, dumping up to 10 inches of rain before regaining tropical storm status early Tuesday. The heavy rains pelted people huddling in fields and searching for survivors. U.S. forecasters said Tropical Storm Grace was moving early Tuesday near the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti on a forecast track expected to take it between southeastern Cuba and Jamaica by Tuesday afternoon. It had top sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving to the west near 14 mph .
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