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Flood and tornado threats ramp up as Debby approaches Florida
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8/5/2024
AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Perry, Florida, on Aug. 4, where he spoke with locals who are staying in hotels to ride out the storm in case of dangers at home.
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We do have a team coverage here throughout Florida and the Southeast as
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we continue to track Debbie. Right now we want to head on over to a
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meteorologist and storm chaser Tony Laubach who is tracking Debbie's outer
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bands tonight. He joins us live from Perry, Florida which is about an
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hour southeast of Tallahassee. Tony, what have you been dealing with tonight?
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You're in a pretty hot zone right now.
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Yeah, unfortunately nothing that we've dealt with all day today is gonna
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compare to what we're gonna be looking at about 12 hours from now as Debbie
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will work its way on shore about 15 miles from here, give or take a few miles
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just depending on where exactly makes landfall. Here in Perry, the most populous
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area really kind of between the Tallahassee and Lake City and Gainesville
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areas. This is really gonna be kind of ground zero I think for much of the more
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impactful areas at least in terms of when it comes to population and this was
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kind of one of the areas that took the brunt of Adelia last year. Today it's
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been mainly bands of rain. The storm has been slow moving up the coast so it's
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taking a while for really a lot of things to get here but we had that
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tornado watch that expired at 8 but a new one has taken its place. That one
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goes until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning so we are expecting a long night of these
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bands that's going to produce the tornado potential here across the
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northern portions of the state of Florida. We talked to some folks that are
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actually hanging around here today. A lot of people here from the area that went
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out for that left Adelia last year that went out of the area hanging around here
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but a lot of them were living in homes that aren't really built to withstand
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strong winds and as a result they're kind of doing the in-between. Instead of
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staying in those dangerous homes they're doing what one resident is doing here
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today. I'm gonna stay here at the motel. No I'm staying here at the motel. I ain't
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gonna leave this time. You know I don't think it's gonna be as bad but it's
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gonna be a, I think it's gonna be strong. I got a big oak tree in my house and it
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hangs over my bedroom. I don't want to be in there with it. I mean there's limbs
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that big around that goes over the top of my house you know and I don't want to
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I don't want to chance that. And it would certainly be a good idea for folks to
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take that advice especially if you live in a manufactured home or a trailer home.
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Yes we're not expecting the winds of this to be in the category 4 range like
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we saw with Adelia last year but we're still we're still talking pretty
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significant winds and again if you're in a home that's not anchored down very
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well that is going to be a very dangerous place to be. So take the heat
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find someplace more sturdy to be to tonight and not to mention again as I
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talked about that tornado threat again new tornado watch that's going until 6
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o'clock on Monday morning. So that tornado threat is gonna linger through
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the overnight hours which makes it even more dangerous because already with
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hurricane tornadoes they're hard enough to see as it is during the day so at
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night even more dangerous. So make sure you have that AccuWeather app. Not only
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do you have it on your phone but make sure those alerts are on and audible so
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don't turn your phones off tonight especially if you're living in that
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tornado watch. You're gonna want to have those warnings to you so you get those
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alerts because these tornadoes happen fast they spin up quickly and they
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might not come with much warning so everything you can do to get yourself
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ahead of those situations is going to be the best thing you can do Bree. But
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tomorrow again we're gonna be hunkered down here we expect the worst of the
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conditions to arrive probably it around sunset around sunrise sorry tomorrow
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morning and lingering maybe into the lunch hour so we're expecting several
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hours of very bad conditions here in Perry and we'll be here for that
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tomorrow. Tony Lombak speaking the AccuWeather language please stay safe
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all great tips and advice there thank you again also for that update.
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