Isaias is forecast to hit the Gulf Coast late Oct 9. Will power outages top 500,000 customers across Alabama and Florida by Oct 12?
67% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 9 predictions cast.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, then weakened as it moved north through Alabama, according to the National Hurricane Center and wire reporting carried by ABC News and CBS News. By early Saturday, Oct. 10, more than 726,000 customers across Florida and Alabama had lost power, according to tracking site poweroutage.com -- well above the 500,000-customer threshold in question. Downed trees and power lines closed roads in Mobile, Alabama, and in Houston County in the state's southeastern corner. Forecasters warned that storm surge, heavy rainfall and flooding remained risks across the Florida Panhandle and into the broader Southeast through the weekend, along with the possibility of spin-off tornadoes. The storm's fast northward track after landfall concentrated wind and tree damage across the panhandle region before its intensity dropped off further inland. Isaias was the first hurricane of an otherwise quiet 2026 Atlantic season, following eight earlier named storms that had not reached hurricane strength. Predict Six's community leaned toward "yes" on the outage threshold at 67%, correctly anticipating that the storm's Gulf Coast landfall would cause widespread power disruption across the two states.