LIVE AERIAL COVERAGE: Widespread flooding in Florida from Tropical Storm Debby

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- As Tropical Storm Debby slams the southeast with tropical downpours, our Tracking the Tropics team takes a look at flooding in the Tampa Bay area.

Up to two feet of rain is expected to fall in some places this week as the storm meanders along the coast.

Debby's center was located about 15 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, as of the National Hurricane Center's 11 a.m. update, but the lopsided storm has already dumped inches of rain in the region. Its maximum sustained winds were at 40 mph.

Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday in Steinhatchee, located in the Big Bend region of Florida. The town is just miles from where Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 storm nearly a year ago.

Some cities in the...

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