Dual Tropical Storms Hit Both US Coasts With Floods and Outages
More than 440,000 homes and businesses from Pennsylvania to Florida are without power and flood threats are rising at both ends of the country as the US deals with a rare double tropical threat from the remnants of storms Isaias off the Atlantic and Rachel moving into the Southwest from the Pacific.
More than 440,000 homes and businesses along the US East and West Coasts are currently without power due to a rare double tropical storm hit. The remnants of Hurricane Isaias are causing chaos in the East, while Tropical Storm Rachel is threatening flood risks in the West. In the East, 441,749 homes and businesses have lost power after Isaias, which made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday night, killing at least four people.
In the West, more than 9,500 customers in Utah are without power as heavy rain from Rachel raises flood risks. Meteorologists note that such situations, with tropical systems impacting both coasts simultaneously, are rare but not unheard of. Similar events occurred in 2021 and 1992. Meanwhile, Hurricane Simon, a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, is wreaking havoc on the coast of Mexico's Jalisco and Colima states, with potential catastrophic impacts along the west-central coast.
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