Storm Debby drenches Florida
Miami, United States – AFP
At least four people were killed as Tropical Storm Debby swept over Florida on Monday, threatening southeastern US states with record-breaking rainfall and potentially catastrophic flooding.
A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff’s office there said, after Debby made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the day as a Category One hurricane.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said it had pulled out a semi-truck along with its deceased driver after it toppled into a bypass canal off I-75, while a 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old boy from Crawfordville were killed during a crash in bad weather on Sunday night, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
A 14-year-old boy survived the crash with serious injuries.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned of “significant” flooding over the coming days, and said the state had already seen storm surge and some water rising.
Around 275,000 customers in Florida and Georgia have lost electricity so far, according to tracker poweroutage.us.
“We have a lot of restoration personnel ready to go to get it back on,” DeSantis said.
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