00:00We do have a team coverage here throughout Florida and the Southeast as
00:05we continue to track Debbie. Right now we want to head on over to a
00:10meteorologist and storm chaser Tony Laubach who is tracking Debbie's outer
00:15bands tonight. He joins us live from Perry, Florida which is about an
00:21hour southeast of Tallahassee. Tony, what have you been dealing with tonight?
00:25You're in a pretty hot zone right now.
00:30Yeah, unfortunately nothing that we've dealt with all day today is gonna
00:34compare to what we're gonna be looking at about 12 hours from now as Debbie
00:38will work its way on shore about 15 miles from here, give or take a few miles
00:43just depending on where exactly makes landfall. Here in Perry, the most populous
00:47area really kind of between the Tallahassee and Lake City and Gainesville
00:52areas. This is really gonna be kind of ground zero I think for much of the more
00:56impactful areas at least in terms of when it comes to population and this was
01:00kind of one of the areas that took the brunt of Adelia last year. Today it's
01:05been mainly bands of rain. The storm has been slow moving up the coast so it's
01:09taking a while for really a lot of things to get here but we had that
01:12tornado watch that expired at 8 but a new one has taken its place. That one
01:16goes until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning so we are expecting a long night of these
01:21bands that's going to produce the tornado potential here across the
01:24northern portions of the state of Florida. We talked to some folks that are
01:28actually hanging around here today. A lot of people here from the area that went
01:33out for that left Adelia last year that went out of the area hanging around here
01:39but a lot of them were living in homes that aren't really built to withstand
01:42strong winds and as a result they're kind of doing the in-between. Instead of
01:45staying in those dangerous homes they're doing what one resident is doing here
01:49today. I'm gonna stay here at the motel. No I'm staying here at the motel. I ain't
01:56gonna leave this time. You know I don't think it's gonna be as bad but it's
02:00gonna be a, I think it's gonna be strong. I got a big oak tree in my house and it
02:04hangs over my bedroom. I don't want to be in there with it. I mean there's limbs
02:08that big around that goes over the top of my house you know and I don't want to
02:12I don't want to chance that. And it would certainly be a good idea for folks to
02:20take that advice especially if you live in a manufactured home or a trailer home.
02:24Yes we're not expecting the winds of this to be in the category 4 range like
02:28we saw with Adelia last year but we're still we're still talking pretty
02:32significant winds and again if you're in a home that's not anchored down very
02:34well that is going to be a very dangerous place to be. So take the heat
02:38find someplace more sturdy to be to tonight and not to mention again as I
02:41talked about that tornado threat again new tornado watch that's going until 6
02:45o'clock on Monday morning. So that tornado threat is gonna linger through
02:49the overnight hours which makes it even more dangerous because already with
02:52hurricane tornadoes they're hard enough to see as it is during the day so at
02:57night even more dangerous. So make sure you have that AccuWeather app. Not only
03:00do you have it on your phone but make sure those alerts are on and audible so
03:04don't turn your phones off tonight especially if you're living in that
03:07tornado watch. You're gonna want to have those warnings to you so you get those
03:11alerts because these tornadoes happen fast they spin up quickly and they
03:15might not come with much warning so everything you can do to get yourself
03:19ahead of those situations is going to be the best thing you can do Bree. But
03:22tomorrow again we're gonna be hunkered down here we expect the worst of the
03:26conditions to arrive probably it around sunset around sunrise sorry tomorrow
03:30morning and lingering maybe into the lunch hour so we're expecting several
03:33hours of very bad conditions here in Perry and we'll be here for that
03:37tomorrow. Tony Lombak speaking the AccuWeather language please stay safe
03:42all great tips and advice there thank you again also for that update.
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