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Fay has finally departed and has headed off to the west. She is now just a low pressure area. She definitely brought us some much needed rain. Minor damage has been seen throughout Citrus County. I personally have seen a couple of trees down but not too much. The flooding has all subsided now as well.

All in all we faired pretty well. Do you have any Storm stories or pictures? Please send them into us so we may post them here on the site. You can either email them or just post a comment here on the blog.  We would really love to hear from you.

We tried our best to keep the information up to date and accurate through out the storm. Some of our info was posted before the news even reported it. Did we miss anything? IS there something you were hoping to find on the site but couldn’t? Let us know and we will get it added for you.

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The Sherriff’s dept has posted the following information.

Shelters will open at 4 p.m. at the following locations:

General population: Lecanto Middle School.

Pet Friendly Shelter: Lecanto Primary School.

Special Needs Shelter: Renaissance Center.

All shelters are located at the Lecanto School Complex off of County Road 491 (Lecanto Highway) in Lecanto.

They have also announced the following road closures

Cutler Spur, North of Kings Bay Drive
SE 2nd Ct., North of Kings Bay Drive
Citrus Ave., South of NE 3rd. St.
NW 16th St., East of NW 21st Ct.
NW 20th Ave, South of NW 19th St.
NW 6th Ave, North of Crystal St.
SE Paradise Point Rd. from Paradise Cir. to Cutler Spur
NE 2nd St. from NE 1st Ave. to Citrus Ave.
NE 5th St., West of Citrus Ave.
Fern Dr., South of NW 6th St.

We will keep you posted as we get more info. Please send in your pictures of flooding and wind damage to photos@citruscountynetwork.com and we will post them tommorrow.

Crystal River Florida 8/22/08 9:30 am

Hello everyone by looking at the roads right now it appears like everyone took the day off today. We are open at the Citrus County Network. Our location is 7990 W. Gulf to Lake Hwy in Crystal River. I also own AirCom Wireless and Etched Designs as well. We are open till 5:30

We will continue to post information about the storm as we get it. If you are out and about please take pictures of any flooding that you see and send it to photos@citruscountynetwork.com and we will get it posted for everyone to see. Read the rest…

Citrus County schools will be closed on Friday, August 22, 2008.

Citrus County is expecting 4 – 8 inches of rainfall over the next three-day period. Winds are expected to be 10-20 mph with possible gusts of up to 45 mph as the rain bands move through the area. The 45 mph wind gusts are expected to start this evening and last through daybreak on Friday morning. No storm surge is expected. Tides are expected to be 1-3 feet above normal. There is a flood watch in effect for Citrus County.

I our continuing efforts to provide you with storm information we have the sandbag locations that are now opened. Please stay tuned to our Blog for more information as we get it, including any school closures or storm shelters if they are needed. The following is from the EOC website. Read the rest…

Tropical Storm Fay continues to just meander around the space coast. Currently she is stationary in the Atlantic.
At 800 PM EDT…0000 UTC…the center of Tropical Storm Fay was
located just off the East Coast of central Florida near latitude
29.0 north…longitude 80.3 west about 45 miles…75 km…
east-southeast of Daytona Beach Florida.
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I just received a message from the Superintendent of Schools Sam Himmel about school on Tuesday.

She made the announcement that the school board has decided to close all Citrus County Schools two (2) hours early on Tuesday August 19th.

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