‘Devastating’ rainfall expected as Hurricane Sally creeps towards Gulf Coast

St. Bernard Parish, La., sheriff’s officers drive their car through a flooded street where the Hurricane Katrina monument, left, is surrounded by water in eastern St. Bernard Parish as Hurricane Sally approaches the Gulf Coast on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (Chris Granger/The Advocate via AP)

Hurricane Sally, a plodding storm with winds of 85mph,is creeping towards the northern Gulf Coast as forecasters warned of potentially deadly storm surges and flash floods, with the heaviest downpours dumping nearly 2ft of rain.

Forecasters said the storm’s drifting pace makes it difficult to predict where the storm’s eye will make landfall, but they kept nudging the predicted track eastwards, easing fears in New Orleans, which was once in Sally’s crosshairs.