Hurricane Isaias made landfall in the US Gulf Coast, on Friday evening.

It went from a Category 2 to 3, with wind gusts of over 193 kilometres an hour.

Four people were killed as a result.

Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida, warned that although the storm is weakening into a post-tropical cyclone, there is a possibility of post-storm dangers, fallen trees and floods.

One person was killed when a tree in Birmingham, Alabama, fell onto a home in the Huffman area.

Nearly 400 Florida State Guard soldiers, are evacuating residents there, while road closures are active at municipal areas like Pensacola.

Similarly, heavy rains and thunderstorms swept across Mecca and the Grand Mosque area, over the weekend.

Some viral social media videos show vehicles submerged at al-Kakiyyah.

The Saudi National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) and the General Directorate of Civil Defense urged residents and pilgrims, to avoid valleys and low-lying areas. 

Picture: Franklin Graham, President of the Samaritan’s purse and Billy Graham’s Evangelistic Association.

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