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Tropical storm Debby makes landfall in Florida with major flooding expected

Tropical storm Debby makes landfall in Florida with major flooding expected

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Hurricane Debby made landfall on Monday morning, but was downgraded to a tropical storm with wind speeds of up to 130 km/h. The storm caused significant damage and flooding in Florida and Georgia, resulting in at least five deaths. In Florida, a 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto his mobile home, and a truck driver was killed when his 18-wheeler plunged into a canal. The storm's centre was southwest of Savannah on Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph. The storm is expected to move offshore and approach the South Carolina coast on Thursday.

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US National Hurricane Center
1. This rainfall will likely result in areas of considerable flash and urban flooding, with significant river flooding expected.
2. Conditions are favorable for strengthening over the Gulf of Mexico with warm sea surface temperatures and light shear. Intensification is likely to be slow during the first 12–24 hours, then proceed at a faster rate after the cyclone develops an organized inner core.
3. Debby is then expected to move slowly across northern Florida and southern Georgia Monday and Tuesday, and be near the Georgia coast by Tuesday night.
4. After landfall, weakening steering currents should cause the cyclone to slow down while it moves northeastward or eastward over parts of northern Florida and Georgia.
Michael Brennan
US National Hurricane Center
1. There's some really amazing rainfall totals being forecast and amazing in a bad way.
2. That would be record-breaking rainfall associated with a tropical cyclone for both the states of Georgia and South Carolina if we got up to the 30in level.
3. This is going to result in a prolonged extreme rainfall event with potential for catastrophic flooding across coastal portions of Georgia, South Carolina, even extending up into North Carolina.
Ron DeSantis
Republican Party
1. Don't try to drive through this. We don't want to see traffic fatalities adding up. Don't tempt fate, don't try to go through these flooded streets.
2. Floridians are encouraged to monitor weather conditions, listen to all orders from local officials, create disaster preparedness plans, and stock disaster supply kits with food, water, and other necessities for their households.
3. Please do not drive your vehicles through flooded streets. The number one way we have fatalities as a result of floods is people trying to drive through the floodwater.
Brian Kemp
Republican Party
1. As the state prepares for a major storm system early this coming week, we urge all Georgians to take precautions to keep their families and property safe. I've issued a State of Emergency through Thursday, August 8.

Tropical storm Debby makes landfall in Florida with major flooding expected

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