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Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Gulf Shores, Ala. at Category 2 strength

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.Moving at an agonizingly slow 3 mph, Sally finally came ashore at 4:45 a.m.

local time with top winds of 105 mph (165 kmh), the National Hurricane Center said. Sally’s northern eyewall had raked the Gulf Coast with hurricane-force winds and rain from Pensacola Beach, Florida, westward to Dauphin Island, Alabama, for hours before its center finally hit land.Some 150,000 homes and businesses had lost electricity by early Wednesday,.

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