Officials in Dixie County, just west of Gainesville, stated that a woman and a 12-year-old were murdered after their automobile crashed on Sunday night.
A 19-year-old was killed in southern Georgia when a huge tree fell on a porch at a residence in Moultrie, according to local media.
Jamie Rhome, the hurricane center’s deputy director, warned that the storm’s slow movement might result in “catastrophic flooding.”
The US Border Patrol says Debby’s surf and high winds helped blow 25 bundles of cocaine worth more than $1 million ashore in the Florida Keys.
According to PowerOutage.com, around 150,000 households and businesses in Florida lost power Monday night. Another 36,000 Georgia and South Carolina residents were experiencing power outages.
The storm is expected to skim the coast, drenching southeast Georgia and the Carolinas on Tuesday and Wednesday before moving inland near the South Carolina coast on Thursday.
Before the hurricane made landfall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed a state of emergency in 61 of the state’s 67 counties.
Spyridon Aibejeris told USA Today that repairs to his Keaton Beach property from Hurricane Idalia, a category three storm that hit land this summer, had only been completed two weeks ago.
