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Winds roar and flooding begins as Debby swirls through northern Florida
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8/6/2024
Storm chaser Leslie Hudson reported live in Jacksonville as a weakening Tropical Storm Debby continued to cause major problems.
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And we want to head down to Jacksonville, Florida, because joining us right now is storm chaser
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Leslie Hudson. Leslie, it's good to see you. I know that you guys have had a pretty wild
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ride in northeast Florida with a few tornado threats of your own at times.
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Yeah, it's been an interesting afternoon for sure, Jeff, as we've had to weather several
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different scenarios here. I'm actually under an alcove because I was down at the St. Johns just
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now. I could not stand and it blew off the door of my car, which is now damaged from the winds.
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I'm going to actually try and pick up the camera so you can see it from a distance. I'm in the
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safety, like I said, of this awning here, so I apologize here for a second while I move this
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around so you guys can see. Way down there is the St. Johns and you probably can see the angriness
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of the wind and the waves here. I'll hold this so you can hopefully see it. But again, there has
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been all kinds of weather in this area. We've seen some flooding. This is an area known to flood
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in Jacksonville. We're in the San Marco area at the Memorial Park and that is a common place where
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they get a lot of flooding when a tropical system heads through here. So again, the winds down there
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definitely tropical storm. I could not stand. They're better here under the protection of this
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awning and at least from the wind. And there's also a steady flow of rain here. And Leslie,
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by the numbers, I'm kind of estimating just based on the radar presentation of things here,
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you're about 60 or 70 miles east of the true center of circulation. Being on the east side
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of the storm, you're on the side that's getting more wind, more rain. It's the business side of
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the storm. So you're still very much in it. Are people out and about or are people just
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basically just calling it a day and hunkering down all day long? Yeah, I think a lot of people
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are trying to stay in place. You know, there is a state of emergency for the multiple counties
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here in the state of Florida. Here in the northeast, you know, classes were canceled for
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the local schools. Universities, of course, had closed school for today. And as I have been out
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and around in this area, again, there's been a lot of or not a lot of people out. Certainly a few
02:08
people that had to head to Publix to the grocery store to get some supplies. But you haven't seen
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a lot of people. A lot of restaurants are actually closed in this Riverside area where I am because
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this is an area, again, historically that floods. So the concern will be just how much they did.
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I've been listening to the local meteorologists here. And of course, they're anticipating another
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big round of rain as we head into tonight and tomorrow as Debbie pulls towards the north. And
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that will be the concern because the St. John's behind me is the one that laps over and floods
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these roads so easily. And I know when the St. John's floods, it is a long term problem. It
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doesn't move fast. So it becomes like a lake that floods for days upon days, sometimes weeks on end
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in some areas to your southwest, especially. Thank you so much there, Leslie Hudson
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in Jacksonville, Florida. Hopefully you get that car door repaired there without any incident.
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