A storm warning in Biloxi ? ?Don?t let your guard down? ? as Hurricane Sally churns near the coast

— Hurricane Sally continued to gather strength as it meandered off the Gulf Coast, an oaf of a storm that could linger with hard rain and 100-mph winds threatening to shove massive amounts of storm water onto the shores of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.“We do anticipate a lot of flooding,” Cecilia Dobbs Walton, Biloxi’s spokeswoman, said Monday. In an era of human-caused climate change and warming waters, September has set a record for the most named storms to date in the Atlantic, said Colorado State tropical weather researcher Phil Klotzbach.The season has seen a record year for tropical activity in the Atlantic, with 20 named storms forming and obliterating the typical average of 11.The number of storms with a closed, low-pressure center this hurricane season has already nearly exhausted the alphabet to name them. City officials cleared drains and prepared rescue gear in anticipation of heavy rains and storm surges.Dobbs Walton said the area suffered severe damage in Hurricane Nate in 2017, and over a dozen years earlier during Hurricane Katrina.Adams claimed that his family has lost 17 houses since Hurricane Camille in 1969, but they stayed because Biloxi is their home.