Hurricane Isaias kills four in Florida and Alabama after Category 2 landfall near Destin

What we’re less sure of6 of 8 claims

• Medium

  Nearly 900,000 customers in Alabama, Florida and Georgia were without power Saturday morning.

  Unattributed in the story; outage figures in SOURCES vary by time and unit (Washington Examiner cites ~1 million, Yahoo a 1:45 p.m. snapshot), so the exact morning figure is only partially supported.

• Medium

  About 700,000 people still lacked power Saturday afternoon per the NYT, while the BBC put it at 600,000.

  Attributed to the NYT and BBC, but the two outlets disagree and the NYT figure counts 'people' rather than customers (per the SOURCES note), so it is not comparable with the morning customer count.

• Medium

  About 900,000 Floridians evacuated and the state staged 16,000 utility workers before landfall.

  The story gives no attribution, and no source in the list explicitly carries either the 900,000 evacuation figure or the 16,000 workers; plausible from state officials but unverified here.

• Low

  Isaias was Florida's first hurricane landfall in two years.

  An unsourced sweeping historical claim in the desk's voice; the NOAA HURDAT records in SOURCES could support or refute it, but the story cites no source for the comparison.

• Medium

  On Oct. 9 Isaias reached Category 3 with 120-mph winds, and forecasters warned of up to 9 feet of storm surge between the Santa Rosa/Okaloosa county line and Grayton Beach.

  The surge forecast is attributed to forecasters (consistent with NHC advisories in SOURCES); the 120-mph peak is stated without attribution.

• Medium

  Alabama, Florida and Georgia declared states of emergency on Oct. 9 ahead of landfall.

  Plausible and consistent with the prior-day coverage, but neither the story nor the SOURCES list carries a specific citation for the three declarations.