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LCNI News October 2017.Indd LCNI news 21 Pages Landmark Community Newspapers, LLC October 2017 Relief ... For Most in Citrus County By Mike Wright, Staff Reporter The storm did not leave Citrus County direction seemed to be driving directly Citrus County Chronicle unscathed. About 90,000 residents and through the heart of Citrus County. hundreds of businesses were without Prendergast warned of potential cata- Most Citrus Countians awoke Monday, power as tropical-storm-force winds top- strophic flooding along U.S. 19 and even Sept. 11, 2017 to find they had been spared pled trees and snapped limbs, bringing up to 3 feet of water as far east as Rock from potential catastrophe. down power lines. While power returned Crusher Road. Hurricane Irma, predicted even early gradually, it took up to 10 days for some Mandatory evacuations were ordered for Sunday to arrive at Citrus in the wee places to have electricity restored, sher- coastal residents and anyone living in a morning hours Monday as a Category 3 or iff’s spokeswoman Heather Yates said. mobile home. Shelters at schools in 4 hurricane, instead weakened consider- Coastal Citrus County was still under a Lecanto, Citrus Springs and Beverly Hills ably and its eye skirted to the east. storm surge warning Monday evening and swelled. Other residents hunkered down The result: No hurricane-force winds in watching high tides to see if flooding with family and friends, or took their Citrus during the storm’s entire duration, would occur. chances on clogged highways to escape. Sheriff Mike Prendergast said. “We were And homeowners throughout the county, Businesses closed on Sunday. fortunate and totally blessed by the hand especially in Inverness and Floral City, Inverness City Manager Frank of God,” he said during a Facebook brief- found damaged homes and garages caused DiGiovanni, who has more than 25 years’ ing Monday afternoon. by fallen tree limbs. experience with the city, said Irma had But it’s not close to what the county was him worried. “This was my largest con- bracing for. Residents and officials were cern ever since I’ve been with the city,” he on edge since before last weekend, watch- said. “This storm had Citrus County writ- ing the large and powerful Category 5 ten all over it.” Hurricane Irma decimate the Caribbean Irma then made landfall on Marco Island, before heading Saturday for the Florida on the Lee County coast. What was then Keys. It arrived as a Category 4, then was expected to be a powerful march up the expected to skirt up the Gulf Coast of the state. As the storm drew closer, the eye’s Con nued on page 2 A tattered American Flag blows in the wind Monday, Sept. 11 in Inverness, Fla., follow- Eugene Billanti of Inverness tosses limbs from a large tree that crushed the roof of his ing powerful Hurricane Irma winds. home. He said the tree fell sometime around 11 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10 during especially Photo by Matthew Beck strong winds. Photo by Matthew Beck Relief ... For Most in Citrus County Con nued from page 1 Gulf Coast, through Tampa Bay and into Citrus County, started to change signifi- cantly. By late Sunday afternoon, the expected strength of Irma was reduced in Tampa to a Category 2. Early Sunday eve- ning, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office estimated the Citrus would see a low-end Category 1 hurricane. That never materi- alized. Yates said top winds were recorded in Beverly Hills at 64 mph during the storm period between Sunday night and Monday morning. Rainfall, which the National Hurricane Center predicted at up to 16 inches, came in half that -- about 7 to 8 inches, Yates said. Prendergast wasn’t the only one referring to divine interven- tion Monday to explain Irma’s sudden weakening and directional change. “The Almighty was with us,” DiGiovanni said. Sheriff’s Capt. David DeCarlo, direc- tor of Emergency Operations, said in an This is our downtown Inverness office with the windows boarded up in anticipation interview every forecast pointed to a of Hurricane Irma, which was expected to hit Citrus County late Sunday, September potential disaster in Citrus County. “We 10th into early morning Monday, September 11th. Seen here is MaryAnn Naczi, our were prepared for the absolute worst,” he Legal’s Ad Rep. Citrus was very fortunate when Irma switched directions and did not said. “We were saved by the grace of hit the county as a category 3-4 hurricane as expected. Many lost power and trees God.” were knocked down, but overall we truly dodged a bullet! LINDA BARNETT, EDITOR news LCNI NEWS MAKERS who submitted news for LCNI July, August and September are highlighted in blue Newspaper Location Coordinator Newspaper Location Coordinator MetroWest Newspapers .................... Brighton, CO .......................................Beth Potter Lebanon Enterprise .............................Lebanon, KY ..................................... 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