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Manatee County is still under a state of emergency after commissioners extended the order originally issued due to Debby. County officials say flood concerns are still high because of heavy rain over the last 48 hours.
Neighbors, trying to recover from Debby, are worried the flooding may not be over. The Lake Manatee dam is at capacity and had to release water again overnight Thursday when the area got more than five inches of rain in about 24 hours.
“The soils are saturated [and] the stormwater ponds in the area are full,” Evan Pilachowski, county's deputy administrator, told commissioners Thursday morning. “The culverts are running at capacity.”
Barbara Ficklin says the rain this August has turned her horse farm into a temporary lake.