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Gulf Coast flooded as Hurricane Sally creeps inland

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and trapping people in high water as it crept inland for what could be a long, slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South.Moving at an agonizing 3 mph, or about as fast as a person can walk, the storm made landfall at 4:45 a.m.

close to Gulf Shores, Alabama, battering nearby Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, two cities with a combined metropolitan-area population of almost 1 million.Emergency crew plucked people from flooded homes.

In Escambia County, which includes Pensacola, more than 40 were rescued, including a family of four found in a tree, Sheriff.

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