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Im dan shaffer. In pasco county people hoping for the best, preparing for the worst as floodwaters inch closer to their homes. Abc action News ReporterRodney Dunigan is live in new port richey. A retention pond weve seen all morning long is causing big problems for people out there. Reporter the heavy rain weve gotten this morning certainly not helping things. I want to point some things out. Look down the street and see the barriers, they were put up yesterday to show where the the water extending halfway down the block. Its getting deeper. If you look down you can see were estimating this is about 6 to 7 inches just on this road here. If you look there, that is the retention pond, that is causing this problem. Many folks are in fear they will be forced to leave soon. With every raindrop, concern this could possibly get. Along iron bark drive an overflowing retention pond bl ....
And when youve had pockets of up to 10 inches another quarter inch would be a problem. And were going to get more than that today. The heaviest of the rain, tampa, youre done, light showers left over from a clust theyre moved in through pinellas. Its this pocket there of heavy rain. These are downpours beginning to move in across pasco and eventually headed to hernando. I want to widen out this shot. A couple of showers are developing on the back side of it but unlike yesterday look at this, this chunk of dry air here. Or at will begin to move in. Well eventually get back more rain but for the morning commute compared to yesterday were doing a lot better. Still throughout the day today another two to four inches likely across the north. That is why the flood watches are extended until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Well transition back to a more typical pattern tomorrow. Before that happens were going to hang in with some periodic heavy rainfall throughout the day today. Well keep you posted on t ....
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