The same cannot be said for tallahassee. 70 without power. It could last for several days. We know hermine is not done yet. The roads looked jagged because of hermine. The first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. Made landfall overnight. Pounding the gulf coast with the heavy rain and high winds. This is the worst in a long time. Hard hit island the storm surge devastated part of the community. The water in the backyard. Went to the front. This is expected to impact the east coast throughout the Holiday Weekend. The goal is to be overprepared and underwhelmed when it comes to the storm. We want everyone to be safe. This storm will be dangerous and impact labor day festivities. A system not moving could be trouble. The rainfall could happen for hourers and days in some spots. There are 40 Million People that are impacted by the Tropical Storm hermine. In the Power Outages in florida they have over 300,000. Majority without power. As the storm moves through georgia and through the car
Scene of this gutted work shop and storage building. Theyve been digging away on the north side, tan looks like where the fire started. Its far too early to say if this was accident or arson. The blaze ripped through the old world building in minutes, driven by a steady breeze and plenty of flammable materials. The smoke and flames roared into the air and were visible from miles. Workers at the facility were worried that it may not be an accident. We were on edge, but theres stepped up security. The building is off powder mill road and cuts through the Agricultural Research center. Workers were sent home last week after many of them received an anonymous, but threatening email message. We were aware of the threats made taken into the course of the investigation, at this point in time were not making a statement either way as to whether or not those threats are related to this event. The building was loaded with things that may have accidentally touched off the blades, 55,000 guns of ga
Little bit so its not going to strengthen before making land fall. Its going to remain 80 Miles Per Hour. Its just offshore but Hurricane Force winds are still onshore just to the east of apalachicola and it continues to move and kind of waiver a little bit. It will probably make land fall technically in the next few hours. Hurricane warning where the storm is but look at all the Tropical Storm watches. Theyre up and down the eastern seaboard covering most eastern seaboard. Its going to take a track to the east of tallahassee, to the west of charleston. Just to the west of hatteras by 8 a. M. Saturday. By the time it gets there winds will be 50. By that time rain and showers are going to make it in to the Northern Neck and lower bay and also delmarva. The real troubling part, it doesnt go anywhere. Sunday, monday, tuesday. Tuesday at 11 00 for crying out loud it is still off the atlantic coast. Thats why were so concerned with massive beach erosion. We mentionedar Tropical Storm watch
Gallaspie wins Allen County Spelling Bee
By Sam Shriver - sshriver@limanews.com
The top three finishers in this year’s Allen County Spelling Bee were first place, Melody Gallaspie from Elida Middle School, second place, Vy Dang from Perry Junior High School, and third place, Nathaniel Bontrager from Spencerville Middle School.
Sam Shriver | The Lima News
Melody Gallaspie, of Elida Middle School, correctly spells “conglomerate” to win the 2021 Allen County Spelling Bee.
Sam Shriver | The Lima News
Vy Dang from Perry Junior High, correctly spells a word before judge Mindy Schultz. Dang finished second in this year’s Allen County Spelling Bee.