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Tropical Storm Debby floods Sarasota, Florida

Tropical Storm Debby drenched northern Florida on Monday and killed at least six people as the downgraded hurricane churned toward Georgia and the Carolinas, threatening a week of torrential downpours and flooding across the region.

By USA Today Network

Today • Updated 5:25 p.m.

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Pinecraft residents ride in a high-water rescue vehicle during evacuations along Phillippi Creek on Monday afternoon following Tropical Storm Debby.
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River Street Sweets was one of several businesses in Habersham Village that closed early on Monday, Aug. 5, as Tropical Strom Debby moved toward Savannah.
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Yia Yia's Kitchen closed early on Monday, Aug. 5, in preparation for the flooding expected from Tropical Storm Debby.
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Yia, Yia's Kitchen has seen it's share of flooding in recent weeks, so they closed early on Monday, Aug. 5, and placed sandbags at every entrance in preparation for Tropical Storm Debby.
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Members of Florida Task Force 6 from Ft. Myers go door to door checking on residents in the neighborhood around S. Conrad Ave. and Phillippi Creek on Monday afternoon in Sarasota following Tropical Storm Debby.
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Reid McCullough wades through floodwaters at Courtland St. and Lockwood Ridge Rd. Monday morning in Sarasota following Tropical Storm Debby. McCullough was trying to see the condition of his old house one block away, that he sold just six months ago.
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Members of Florida Task Force 6 from Ft. Myers bring a residents to dry land on South Conrad Avenue. Monday afternoon in Sarasota following Tropical Storm Debby.
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A truck drives through high flood waters at the intersection of 38th and Jefferson Streets on Monday, Aug. 5, as tropical storm Debby moved toward the Savannah area.
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Members of Florida Task Force 6 from Ft. Myers bring two Pinecraft residents to dry land Monday afternoon on Bahia Vista St. in Sarasota following Tropical Storm Debby.
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A high-water rescue vehicle drives through floodwaters on Bahia Vista St. at the bridge over Phillippi Creek carrying evacuees from the Pinecraft neighborhood on Monday afternoon Aug. 5, following Tropical Storm Debby.
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The expanded floodplain for McCoys Creek in Jacksonville's Mixontown neighborhood is swollen with rainwater as the bands of wind and rain from Hurricane Debby passed over Jacksonville after the storm made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region near Steinhatchee Monday, Aug. 5.
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An airboat carrying evacuees from the Pinecraft neighborhood approaches dry land Monday afternoon Aug. 5, as multiple law enforcement and rescue agencies conduct evacuations in the area following Tropical Storm Debby.

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