Here, Tropical Storm hermine is the trend. This is what you expect as it loses the energy from the water. Then it transitions into a bigger rain event than it is a wind event. Still 70 mileperhour winds close to hurricane strength. Theres the track moving away from the state of florida. The problem is, well still have the impact throughout the day because of the heavy rainfall. Friday at 1 30, we first rainfall making landfall in the state of florida in years. As i mentioned, a Tropical Storm. Look at the rains associated with it. The winds that are setting up, we had one last night. Thiss nebringing us torrential rain. You are hearing the thunder out there if you are waking up with us. Look at Wesley Chapel and pasco. Very heavy rain into pinellas. That band a little farther to eastern and citrus and portions of hernando, its not raining there. A lyle drier to the north and up for the rest us, its coming through. This band that has set up here will stay on topch us here. It will pour
As wbtvs alex giles is on your side showing us how crews continue to work to get the tree out of the way. Reporter one by one the cars are taking a detour tonight. I have to figure how to get home. Reporter the path home is blocked by an ageold tree, uprooted this afternoon. I was in awe. I couldnt think of what happened. Reporter what happened was wild, windy weather. The kids normally catch the school bus here in the mornings, tomorrow they will be waiting somewhere else. The wind was strong but didnt realize it was going to be blowing down huge old trees. Reporter this wasnt the only one. The red cross called until to help out a family after heavy winds took down a tree on stone haven drive. Neighbors saw the aftermath. Been here 14 years, nothing like this ever happened to us. Really strong winds. Still blowing tonight. Christine that was alex giles reporting there. Charlottemecklenburg police told us the road could be shut down through the morning commute. We will remain at the sc
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Some residents in Terre Haute may have been without power for a short time on Monday afternoon. According to the Duke Energy Power Outage Map, around 2:00 p.m. 3,095 customers were without power. Duke Energy Manager, Rick Burger reported as of 3:00 p.m., all power has been restored. Burger explained [.]