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Isaias Made It To Birmingham. The Consequences Were Deadly.

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Isaias Made It To Birmingham. The Consequences Were Deadly.

And on this humid October day, his nephew says it’s hard to remember him, too. 

Devolin “Bobo” Webster, 66, died unexpectedly in his home Saturday morning as the remnants of Hurricane Isaias passed through the Magic City, more than 200 miles from where the category 2 storm made landfall around 8:30 the night before. 

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A tree struck Webster’s home just after 5 a.m., according to the local coroner’s office, crashing through the roof and killing him.

Climate Central, a nonprofit that researches and reports on climate change’s effects on people’s lives, said exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures in the western and central Gulf of Mexico, where the storm formed, were up to 600 times more likely due to human-caused atmospheric warming. 

Webster is one of eight people whose deaths officials have attributed to Isaias and its aftermath: two in Alabama and six in Florida. 



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