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How is Lake Norman doing? I love that area. I can't tell you why, but I love that area."
At one point during a briefing, Trump asked an official We have seen significant storm surge. We have seen inundation. We have seen and we’ll continue to see flooding in various parts of the state of Florida,
Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters, warning of a threat of “significant flooding events” in the coming days We have a lot of restoration personnel ready to go to get it back on,
This is going to be an event that is going to be probably here for the next five to seven days, maybe as long as 10 days, depending on how much rainfall we get,
A few tornadoes are possible over central and northern Florida and southeastern Georgia today. The threat will spread northeastward into parts of South Carolina later today and tonight,
the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory Please don’t put yourself at risk,
the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post at 9:30 am We are looking at potentially really, really significant flooding that will happen, particularly in north-central Florida,
state Governor Ron DeSantis told an emergency briefing on the storm Sunday It is forecast to be a historic event for Savannah. We've heard words like 'unprecedented' and 'historic,' and those are the types of words that concern me. Even they [the NWS] seem amazed at the amount of water that is coming because of this storm,
I'm concerned about our homeless and individuals who have a hard time in life anyway. It keeps me up at night. In a city that's been around 292 years and has seen it all, we have not really seen this."
So, it's going to be wet. We're going to have a lot of inundation that is going to present hazards and it's going to present challenges, but we will respond appropriately, and we have everything staged, that we wanted to have staged,
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said at a Sunday briefing Right now, we are to trying secure everything from floating away,
said Sheryl Horne, whose family owns the Shell Island Fish Camp along the Wakulla River in St Marks, Florida, where some customers moved their boats inland The flooding threat from Debby could lead to a life-threatening and catastrophic flooding disaster in communities across the Southeast if this storm slows down or stalls out,
said AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jon Porter in a press release Do not be lulled into any false sense of security that Debby is presently rated as a tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. There are many cases, such as Florence in 2018, where a Category 1 hurricane or tropical storm caused catastrophic flooding,
said Porter in a press release Dangerous storm surge and wind impacts are expected along portions of the southeast U.S. coast from northeastern Florida to North Carolina through the middle of the week, and storm surge warnings and tropical storm watches and warnings are in effect for portions of these areas,
the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a Key Messages advisory Debby is then expected to move slowly across northern Florida and southern Georgia late today and Tuesday, and be near the Georgia coast by Tuesday night,
A Storm Surge Warning means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline,
Potentially historic heavy rainfall across southeast Georgia and the coastal plain of South Carolina through Saturday morning will likely result in areas of catastrophic flooding. Heavy rainfall will likely result in considerable flooding impacts from portions of central and northern Florida and across portions of central and northeast North Carolina through Saturday morning,
I am used to storms and I'm used to cleaning up after storms,
When the water rises, when you have streets that can be flooded, that's hazardous,
The rains have ceded, the grounds are flooded, and we lost a couple of oak trees, but we still have our power,