(11 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lithia, Florida – 11 October 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Ty ONeil, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Thanks to a sheriff’s boat, we were able to take a tour of the community behind me and see some of the flooding that’s happened. And unfortunately, it’s very substantial. We saw some buildings with only their roofs poking out of the water. We saw box trucks that were basically completely submerged and really substantial, substantial damage. There are some homes that are okay. There were some that are up on stilts or just happened to be in a higher area. Unfortunately, we just spoke to the sheriff and he said that the water here is actually expected to rise and things could get worse."
2. Various emergency responder stirs a boat in high water ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Chad Chronister, Hillsborough County: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"This area, these residents are used to a little bit of flooding. They’re not used to this amount of flooding. And the worst part is they’re not used to this amount of flooding in such a short period of time. I was talking to one of the residents who went to bed last night, saw about a foot of water, and said, hey, we’re going to be okay, only to wake up today and saw they were in six feet of water."
4. Home, boat submerged by high water ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
5. Various trucks, and buildings submerged in high water ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Chad Chronister, Hillsborough County: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The sad and scary part is we don’t believe the river’s crested yet. When you have 16 inches of water in some areas in northern Tampa that are still flooded, that water still has to come south. Mother Nature does a great job. She has a plan. It goes into the river and the river out into the bay. So there’s a lot more water to come."
7. Various buildings and homes in flooded water ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Chad Chronister, Hillsborough County:
"My biggest concern is, is, as this water continues to get deeper, the affected individuals and communities are going to continue to grow. We haven’t seen the worst of this yet."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Chad Chronister, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office:++PARTIALLY COVERED++
10. A lot of this community left, they knew that the flooding was coming. Again, it’s not their fault. The residents that stayed. They knew there’d be some flooding. Everyone was predicting it to be 2 to 3 days out and didn’t know how horrible it would be. They never expected it to be this much in such a short period of time, and it caught a lot of them off guard."
11. Various, residents on the porch, homes in flooded water ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
According to Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, there is " a lot more water to come" to flooded areas of his county, and the high water is expected to continue as the Alafia River crest, along with additional water flowing from the northern Tampa area.
Chronister and his Hillsborough County emergency responder team took The Associate Pres on a tour of the area around Lithia, Florida where homes and buildings were dramatically submerged in the high waters left behind from Hurricane Milton.
Crews from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office were helping rescue people stranded in rising waters along the Alafia River.
The river is 25 miles (40 kilometers) long and runs from eastern Hillsborough County, east of Tampa, into Tampa Bay.
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