Birmingham cleans up after Isaias plows through

The call came at 2 a.m. But Nash Maple was fast asleep.

“I didn’t see it [the voicemail] until 6 in the morning when we woke up,” Maple said.

That’s how Maple, who was on a trip near Jackson, Mississippi, with his girlfriend, learned a tree fell on the house they rented in Birmingham’s Glen Iris neighborhood. It’s one instance of the scattered damage caused by Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane Friday evening before bringing tropical-storm-force winds and heavy rain to Central Alabama overnight into Saturday…

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