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Tropical Storm Debby causing power outages across Tampa Bay Area

By FOX 13 News Staff
Updated  August 5, 2024 6:18am EDT
Florida
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    TAMPA, Fla. - Tropical Storm Debby made landfall in the Big Bend area on Monday morning and thousands of people in the Bay Area lost power as the storm moved by.

    Tropical Storm Debby slowly weakening

    Debby is bringing a lot of deep tropical moisture to the Southeast as it slowly weakens, according to FOX 13 News Meteorologist Jim Weber. Weber says a slow moving storm always means big rainfall totals.

    As of 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday, the following number of customers are without power:

    Duke Energy

    Citrus County - 32

    Hernando County - 2

    Pasco County - 81

    Pinellas County - 1,138

    Polk County - 4

    Sumter County - 0

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    Florida Power & Light Company (FPL)

    DeSoto County - 8

    Highlands County - 0

    Manatee County - 205

    Sarasota County - 1,612

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    Lakeland Electric

    About 90 customers are without power.

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    Peace River Electric Cooperative, Inc

    DeSoto - 0

    Hardee - 0

    Highlands - 0

    Hillsborough - 0

    Manatee - 3

    Polk - 0

    Sarasota - 0

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    TECO

    A total of 181 outages have been reported.

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    Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative

    Citrus County - 0

    Hernando County - 0

    Pasco County - 4

    Polk County - 0

    Sumter County - 0

    Unassigned - 0

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