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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Debby flooded homes, an animal shelter and closed parts of the main interstate highway across northern Florida on as the storm hung stubbornly offshore over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening up to two feet of rain in places.
Debby promised to bring more high winds, relentless rain and likely flooding to the already saturated state. It was forecast to cross Florida and head into the Atlantic on Thursday.
The storm was about 70 miles west of northwest Florida and moving east at 3 mph. Debby was weakening and had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, barely a tropical storm.
The Florida Highway Patrol closed portions of Interstate 10 when troopers reported several areas of flooding on a roughly 50-mile stretch. Authorities warned motorists to use extreme caution on other parts of the highway.
Farther south, four puppies and a young dog drowned when a swollen creek flooded an animal shelter in the city of Starke. Officials placed sandbags and dug trenches outside to protect the shelter, but the water rose quickly Sunday night, The Florida Times-Union reported.
A manatee was found dead in the Tampa Bay area and wildlife crews were trying to rescue two others that had beached nearby. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the storm contributed to the animals washing ashore.
Roads were washed out in the area and residents tried to salvage belongings from flooded homes in low-lying areas. At one point Monday, high winds and flooding worries prompted authorities to close two major routes over Tampa Bay into St. Petersburg.
TS Debby relentless in soggy assault on Fla.
Tropical Storm Debby appears to park itself off Florida coast
TS Debby relentless in soggy assault on Fla.
Forecasters were expecting the rains to continue, bringing another 4 to 8 inches across northern Florida. The storm could also bring up to 10 inches of rain to southeastern Georgia.
Without even making landfall, the system triggered at least 20 reports of tornadoes.
“All of a sudden, it gets very quiet, and I thought, ‘Oh, the storm is over. … Then I heard this explosion, and I heard this pow!” Cleo Robertson told “CBS This Morning.”
The 73 year old watched anxiously as a possible twister closed in on her home in hard-hit Pasagrill Sunday.
It tore through her neighbor’s home before jumping to hers – one of the oldest houses in the community.
“All the people … came out of (an) apartment, six of them, scared to death. They had to be evacuated, because their roof was gone,” Robertson said.
At least one person was killed Sunday by a tornado spun off by the large storm system.
WFLA-TV reported that a young mother, Heather Town, died Sunday when her Highlands County home was lifted off its foundation and she and her baby girl were thrown into nearby woods. The mother was found clutching the child, who survived.
Alabama authorities searched for a South Carolina man who disappeared in the rough surf.
The bridge leading to St. George Island, a vacation spot along the Panhandle, was closed to everyone except residents, renters and business owners to keep looters out. The island had no power, and palm trees had been blown down, but roads were passable.
“Most true islanders are hanging in there because they know that you may or may not be able to get back to your home when you need to,” said David Walker, an island resident having a beer at Eddy Teach’s bar. He said he had been through many storms on the island and Debby was on the weaker end of the scale.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a statewide emergency, allowing authorities to put laws against price-gouging into effect and override bureaucratic hurdles to deal with the storm.
A tropical storm warning remained in effect Tuesday morning for about 450 miles of coastline, from Mexico Beach in the Panhandle to Englewood, south of Sarasota.
Forecasters cautioned that Debby is a large tropical cyclone spreading strong winds and heavy rains at great distances from its center.
People in several sparsely populated counties near the crook of Florida’s elbow were urged to leave low-lying neighborhoods because of the danger of flooding.
Residents waded in knee-deep water Monday as sinkholes popped up in other neighborhoods, a truck teetering over one gaping hole.
By the end of the week, Debby could dump more than two feet of rain on some coastal communities.
While the storm has helped ease Florida’s drought conditions, most of those affected are ready to see Debby move on.
Some 30,000 customers had lost power due to Debby, and officials said they expect many more outages as Debby makes landfall.
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