‘I’m not taking any chances’: Residents prepare for Hurricane Isaias with sandbags

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Mobile police and city officials gathered with residents on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to bag sand outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Estella Rogers, 2, of Mobile sits in the bed of her father's truck as he loads it up with sand. Mobile police and city officials gathered with residents on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to bag sand outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Peter Kyne of Mobile loads up sand into his vehicle on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. Residents, city officials and police gathered outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala., to bag sand. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Mobile police and city officials gathered with residents on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to bag sand outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Mobile police and city officials gathered with residents on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to bag sand outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Mobile police and city officials gathered with residents on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to bag sand outside the Mobile Police Department's First Precinct office on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Ala. The effort was held in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall on Friday night, Oct. 9, 2026, and impact the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Two-year-old Estella Rogers bounced around in the bed of her father’s pickup truck Thursday, inspecting the growing pile of sandbags being loaded in preparation for potential flooding from Hurricane Isaias.

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