Flooding Issues Spark Discussion Among St. Petersburg City Leaders
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Drivers in St. Petersburg have had their issues as well on roads that have never flooded this badly. City council raised the issue at their meeting. **ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
** - After the storms in St. Pete this week, especially Wednesday night’s that turned roads into rivers, city leaders decided Thursday morning to add a discussion about flooding to City Council’s Thursday afternoon agenda. Parts of St. Pete, according to Claude Tankersley, Public Works Administrator for the city, got 4–5 inches of rain in one hour Wednesday. That’s close to half of the amount of rain that fell in the city in more than 24 hours during Hurricane Debby.
He called Wednesday’s rush hour rainfall record-breaking, and said it overwhelmed the city’s water system. The system, Tankersley said, is designed to handle seven and a half inches of rain in 24 hours, which is the standard across Florida.