Hurricane Sally recovery begins amid flooding warnings

A boat is washed up near a road after Hurricane Sally moved through Orange Beach, Alabama (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally’s rains threaten more misery for some residents of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday.

It comes as the storm’s remnants are forecast to dump as much as a 1ft of rain and spread the threat of flooding to Georgia and the Carolinas.