How has the weather been lately in the Tampa Bay area?”
Tampa Bay area residents get respite from rain – for now The Tampa Tribune Published: July 2, 2009 PORT RICHEY – Shortly before 8 a.m. today, Pauline O’Connell walked her beagle-mix dog, Molly, under blue and sunny skies on Rottingham Drive near Jason Road in the Holiday Hill Estates subdivision. Less than 24 hours before, the road was under several feet of water after heavy rains flooded much of the area east of U.S. 19., including Holiday Hill Estates, Gulf Highlands and Palm Terrace Gardens. “Oh the Lord saved us. We could only get to the top of the street and back,” O’Connell, 67, said in an Irish brogue of trying to walk her dog on Wednesday. In her seven years in the neighborhood, she has seen sitting water before but not like Wednesday. “Yesterday was exceptional,” she said. But this morning there was not much left of the waters that had temporarily displaced about a dozen families Wednesday, a couple of which briefly stayed at the county’s only open shelter at St. Mark’s Presby
