Tropical Storm Gordon causes thousands of power outages
As Tropical Storm Gordon hits the gulf coast, thousands were without power Wednesday morning.
As of 7 a.m., Alabama Power reported 21,000 customers were without power and crews were working in places where it is safe to do so. Those numbers were slightly less than the 4:30 a.m. update, when Alabama Power reported approximately 20,500 customers were without power in the Mobile area. Crews were "in position to begin restoring service as soon as it is safe to work," the company said on social media.
Gordon hit the Alabama coast late Tuesday, bringing heavy rains and winds. While the storm never became a hurricane, it left one child dead after a tree fell onto a mobile home . The incident happened as Gordon made landfall Tuesday night, west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
The early-morning outage numbers are down from Tuesday night's outages, when more than 27,000 customers were without power. Those outages are mostly in coastal Alabama and the western tip of Florida around Pensacola.
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