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A car drives through a road that's beginning to flood on September 4, 2018, in Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall Tuesday night, slamming into the Alabama-Mississippi border with heavy rains, a storm surge, and flooding.
Coastal communities such as Dauphin Island in Alabama and Shell Beach, Mississippi were among the hardest hit. The National Hurricane Center issued a storm surge warning for those and other areas along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines, and sea levels rose as much as five feet there on Tuesday night.
Though Gordon weakened from a category 1 hurricane - which has a minimum wind speed of 74 miles per hour - to a tropical depression before it made landfall, the storm unfortunately still claimed the life of a young child when a tree fell on a mobile home in Pensacola, Florida, according to local officials.
Had the storm remained a hurricane when it hit land, it would have been the first hurricane to make landfall in the US in the 2018 hurricane season.
The storm is expected to continue lashing the region through Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Some areas in the storm's track could see a total of over 12 inches of rain through the week.
Here's what the damage looks like in Alabama and Mississippi: