Baldwin County officials have imposed a curfew from 10pm until 6am this morning.
Conditions here continue to deteriorate as Ida moves inland, howe
ver, at initial glance there does not appear to be much damage, nor do we see a potential for anything other than minor, isolated, damage. We will continue to monitor the storm as it moves across the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area.
Current Conditions: 3.62 inches of rain, averaging 1.4 inches per hour, sustained winds of 30 mph with one gust recorded at this station of 41 mph. In the time it has taken to write this, (which is not long) we are now up to 3.90 inches of rain.
Rainfall is expected to continue for the next 3 to 4 hours and should begin tapering off. Winds should continue to increase over the next two hours. As Jim Cantore mentioned (The Weather Channel) as the winds increase we could see a combination of saturated grounds and spotty power outages throughout the area.