By Memories Always Staff
GULF COAST -- After causing 13 deaths from flooding in the Caribbean, Georgia and Florida, Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday, Aug. 23, before reaching South Mississippi.
Heavy rains fell late into Sunday night and early Monday morning. Fay also dumped torrential rains on Alabama and Louisiana for the remainder of Monday.
The storm had crossed the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba, killing several people. The rainmaker earned the moniker “Fickle Fay” as it hit the Florida Keys, zigzagged back and forth between land, the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean to hit Georgia, as well as the peninsula state four separate times.
The rains were much needed in northern Florida, and Fay's remnant will provide water needed also in drought areas of north Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and other states.
As the storm headed toward South Mississippi, an emergency shelter was opened at the Gautier Convention Center as a precaution for residents seeking safety from flooding in low-lying areas across Jackson County.
Since then, Tropical Storm Gustav formed late Monday in the Caribbean. Weather officials are watching its track closely as it heads today for Haiti and Cuba.
Gustav has become a Category 1 hurricane and is expected to reach Category 3 by the time it enters the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday or around Labor Day on Sept. 1.
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