But nothing like we saw across the panhandle. Neverless still dealing with heavy rainfall here. As far as the biggest impact, so far has been just Power Outages that weve had to deal with. Probably more from lightning strikes over the last several hours. You can see on titan most of the rain over across tampa bay but it continues to push off to the east so our spearier counties are still in interior counties are still in on the rainfall. In fact still pretty heavy rain across portions of highlands and southeastern polk county. When you see the yellow and orange, depicting very heavy rainfall. As far as the movement, everything is headed east and south, and doing so rather rapidly, but the problem is were not getting a good wind behind that. That means were not going to be able to dry out. So as we continue throughout the morning i think were going to have to deal with a lot of wet roads. As far as futurecast, watch what happens, this really races east and then by the time we get to lun
Getting through now and because its early traffic is still pretty light. Lets check drive times, in the middle its taking 8 minutes to get across the Howard Frankland, typically takes about six minutes to get across the bridge. We also have this crash that fhp is calling a possible fatal crash. This is in clearwater, happened eastbound olmerton road at fountain parkway. This is just east of the carilon parkway. Drivers have to get off at roosevelt and get back to 275 and come around that way because again the eastbound lanes are blocked. So if youre heading here you definitely want to leave yourself some extra time. Were also following this crash from earlier this morning in port richey, fatal crash southbound u. S. 19 at ridge road. We just got word this the southbound lanes are now open so no more delays on u. S. 19 but it has been a very busy and tragic morning on bay area roads so if you are leaving lets talk about the weather. It was a gorgeous weekend, i think a lot of people are
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