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Isaias remnants drive Appalachian flooding and 226,000 outages; Hurricane Simon holds Category 3 off Mexico · EM Morning Brief

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  Cedric: Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Monday, October 12, 2026.
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  Cedric: The remnants of Hurricane Isaias dominate the operational picture.
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  Cedric: The Weather Prediction Center issued its last public advisory on the system at 11:00 a.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern Sunday, placing the post-tropical center about 180 miles northeast of Nashville and moving east-northeast at 22 mph, with dissipation expected over West Virginia.
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  Cedric: Flood watches cover portions of the Central and Southern Appalachians and a wind advisory covers parts of the Central Appalachians, with another 1 to 3 inches of rain driving localized flash and urban flooding.
• 0:41
  Cedric: Forecasters also flag tornado potential across the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of Virginia and North Carolina, and life-threatening surf and rip currents along much of the Gulf and Southeast coasts.
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  Cedric: About 226,000 customers remain without power Sunday evening across the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama.
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  Cedric: Four deaths are attributed to the storm, two in Florida and two in Alabama.
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  Cedric: In the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Simon holds Category 3 strength with 125 mph sustained winds, centered about 110 miles west-northwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and crawling northwest at 5 mph.
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  Cedric: A hurricane warning runs from Punta San Telmo to El Roblito and includes Las Islas Marias, with a hurricane watch north to Bahia Tempehuaya.
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  Cedric: Isolated storm totals up to 30 inches are possible in Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco, bringing life-threatening flooding and mudslides.
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  Cedric: Simon's remnant moisture is forecast to feed a multiday flash flood threat across western Kansas, much of Missouri and western Illinois starting Tuesday.
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  Cedric: On the federal side, the National Interagency Fire Center's Sunday situation report holds the National Preparedness Level at 2, with 10 uncontained large fires, 37 active incidents covering 934,483 acres and 2,969 personnel assigned.
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  Cedric: Two new large fires entered the report, in Wyoming and Mississippi.
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  Cedric: The Alaska Volcano Observatory keeps Great Sitkin at Watch and aviation color code Orange, and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory keeps Kilauea at Watch and Orange.
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  Cedric: Let's run through the states.
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  Cedric: Alabama.
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  Cedric: The Alabama Emergency Management Agency reports Sunday that restoration has pushed outages below 75,000, well off the storm's peak.
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  Cedric: Strong winds on the northwest side of Isaias' eye caused widespread tree damage across southwest Alabama, which the agency calls one of the hardest hit areas.
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  Cedric: County emergency management offices in Baldwin, Crenshaw and Conecuh are running on generator power, and multiple healthcare facilities in the southern counties face the same power challenge.
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  Cedric: Communications problems are isolated rather than widespread, concentrated in southwest Alabama.
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  Cedric: State and county emergency managers say response and recovery work will run for weeks, and in some areas months.
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  Cedric: Two of the four deaths attributed to Isaias occurred in Alabama, one from a tree falling on a house in Birmingham and one in a motor vehicle crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County.
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  Cedric: Alaska.
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  Cedric: The Alaska Volcano Observatory's Sunday update keeps Great Sitkin at alert level Watch with aviation color code Orange, where a slow lava eruption continues within the summit crater.
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  Cedric: Shishaldin stays at Advisory and Yellow with low-level unrest.
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  Cedric: Now, back to this morning’s updates.
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  Cedric: California.
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  Cedric: The Bike Fire started Sunday afternoon in Santa Clarita, in Los Angeles County, and prompted evacuation orders for four zones and evacuation warnings for eight more.
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  Cedric: The Los Angeles County Fire Department put the fire at about 200 acres Sunday afternoon, and the Angeles National Forest described erratic fire behavior as it burned uphill near Sand Canyon.
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  Cedric: Aircraft were mobilized within the first hour.
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  Cedric: Cal Fire now lists the Bike Fire at 172 acres and 68 percent containment, and CBS Los Angeles reports county evacuations have been lifted as crews gained the upper hand.
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  Cedric: Three more fires started Sunday: the Blue Fire in Shasta County at 40 acres and 10 percent contained, the Surgone Fire in Humboldt County at 40 acres, and the Marshall Fire in Humboldt County at 12 acres.
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  Cedric: Florida.
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  Cedric: The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority says its systemwide precautionary boil water notice stays in effect and is not expected to lift before Monday or Tuesday, pending test results.
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  Cedric: Okaloosa County lifted mandatory evacuation orders for Zones A and B at noon Sunday, along with restrictions on nonresidents, and reports most roads reopened.
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  Cedric: Florida Power and Light restored service to about 50,000 Escambia County customers Sunday.
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  Cedric: In Santa Rosa County, Escambia River Electric Cooperative reports all six of its substations without power pending PowerSouth transmission line repairs, with crews finishing assessment of roughly 1,900 miles of line.
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  Cedric: The Clyde L.
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  Cedric: Gracey Community Center shelter in Milton remains open, accepting pets with carriers and vaccination records.
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  Cedric: Escambia and Santa Rosa counties target Wednesday to begin debris collection, and Okaloosa County's debris hotline opens Monday morning.
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  Cedric: Hawaii.
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  Cedric: The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's Sunday update keeps Kilauea at alert level Watch and aviation color code Orange.
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  Cedric: The north vent produced spatter and a short, tube-fed lava flow overnight, and the observatory says summit changes are possible in the coming days to weeks.
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  Cedric: Mississippi.
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  Cedric: The national situation report adds the CR 605 fire as a new large incident at 100 acres and fully contained, managed by the Mississippi Forestry Commission.
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  Cedric: North Carolina.
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  Cedric: Governor Josh Stein and state emergency management officials report Sunday that power outages peaked at just over 22,000 statewide, about half of those in the mountains, falling to roughly 10,000 by 10:30 a.m.
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  Cedric: More than 2,300 North Carolina Department of Transportation employees mobilized with signs, trucks and debris clearing equipment, and swift water and search and rescue teams were pre-positioned.
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  Cedric: In McDowell County, first responders worked five landslides and voluntary evacuations overnight, with more than 7 inches of rain reported at Sugar Hill, Zion Hill and Crooked Creek.
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  Cedric: Asheville Regional Airport set a daily record with 3.81 inches Saturday.
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  Cedric: Flood sirens sounded in the Chimney Rock area of Rutherford County as releases from the Lake Lure Dam increased, raising levels along the Broad River.
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  Cedric: Burke County crews ran a water rescue on the Catawba River, and a landslide closed Bear Wallow Road and N.C.
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  Cedric: 226-A in Mitchell County.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings across central North Carolina Sunday.
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  Cedric: Washington.
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  Cedric: The Sisi fire stands at 4,439 acres and 34 percent containment in the Sunday situation report, the least contained large incident in the Northwest.
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  Cedric: Wyoming.
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  Cedric: A new large fire about 10 miles west of Sheridan, in Sheridan County, enters the situation report at 1,645 acres and 80 percent containment, burning in brush, grass and timber with moderate fire behavior.
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  Cedric: Northern Mariana Islands.
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  Cedric: The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation issued a public advisory Sunday for an emergency water service interruption affecting Earhart Drive and Gualo Rai on Saipan.
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  Cedric: Customers in the affected area are directed to the utility's Saipan customer service center for restoration timing.
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  Cedric: That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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