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Waves and wind as the storm brushed by Florida.
Coastal communities in the Carolinas are bracing for Hurricane Isaias, which is anticipated to gain back typhoon strength before it makes landfall.
The National Typhoon Center predicts it will strike in between north-eastern South Carolina and southern North Carolina at some point on Monday night.
Isaias was devalued after striking islands in the Caribbean, where it caused the death of two people.
The storm currently has sustained wind speeds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).
Isaias is the ninth called storm of the year and the current Nationwide Hurricane Center (NHC) projection states the storm is “getting better organised” and will likely be at cyclone strength when it reaches the coast this evening.
The NHC alerted Isaias will trigger heavy rainfall, leading to “widespread small to moderate river flooding” and flash floods in the eastern Carolinas and mid-Atlantic as it moves along the US East Coast.
In north-eastern South Carolina and southern North Carolina, authorities said “there is the danger of lethal storm surge inundation along parts of the instant coastline and surrounding waterways”.
Storm surges along the eastern coast could reach up to 5ft (1.5 m) with ov