Video taking off 43x its usual first day

A magnolia on the power lines: Isaias's aftermath in Fort Walton Beach

A Phoenix station, dealing with Tropical Storm Rachel's winds at home, carried a Fox News report from the Gulf Coast where at least four people died.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 167,699 views a day, 43 times a normal first day on this channel (3,905).

Four dead after Hurricane Isaias strikes Florida Panhandle | FOX 10 Phoenix

Hurricane Isaias made landfall late Friday night near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, as a high-end Category 2 storm with sustained winds of around 105 miles per hour. At least four people died across the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama coast, several of them killed by falling trees.

The report opens in Gulf Breeze, where the wind tore part of the roof off a second-story apartment while a woman and her daughter were inside. Standing outside the damaged building, she describes the roar as her door flexed: "It sounded like a freight train."

Fox News correspondent Max Gorden then reports from Fort Walton Beach, beside a large magnolia brought down onto power lines. There the picture is quieter. Resident Bryce Jeter says most of the damage on his street is fallen trees, and that neighbors are helping each other rake and clear yards while generators fill in for the missing power. "Everyone that we've seen in the neighborhood is doing pretty good," he says. Gorden closes on the wider problem: hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity across the Southeast, and linemen working to restore it.

FOX 10 Phoenix is a long way from the Gulf, and it had weather of its own to cover. The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel brought strong gusts to Arizona, flood watches to the north and west of the state, and a brief ground stop at Phoenix Sky Harbor. Yet the Florida report is the one that traveled: about 167,000 views in its first day, against the few thousand a short upload on the channel usually gets. A longer follow-up on the Gulf Coast cleanup, which notes nearly 5,000 National Guard members deployed in Florida, has also drawn a sizable audience.

In the comments, a few viewers who live in the Panhandle say their own areas fared differently from what the camera shows, and one writes that several nearby neighborhoods were slow to appear on the power company's outage list.

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