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This message is for residents of Levy County west of US 19 in flood prone areas. The National Weather Service is predicting a tidal surge between 5 to 7 feet above Mean Sea Level (MSL) and 8 to 10 inches of rain. Tornado warnings for Levy County are being issued prior to and during the storm. Residents in low lying areas should expect flooding. Emergency response to affected areas will be suspended when sustained winds in excess of 40 miles an hour are reached.

Sheriff Bobby McCallum, in preparation of incoming Tropical Depression 9, has ordered the closing of all boat ramps in Levy County beginning Wednesday morning.

All boat ramps along the Suwannee River and south to the Inglis/Yankeetown area will be posted closed by tomorrow afternoon.

Crews with Levy County Parks and Recreation will be placing signage and barricades at all county boat ramps. Residents who own watercraft and need to remove them from the water are asked to complete this as quickly and safely as possible.

If you have a hurricane plan for staying at home or hitting the road, now might be a good time to get it out and dust it off. Maybe even update it. Check your emergency supplies.

Tropical Depression 9, which has been wandering around and struggling in the Gulf of Mexico for the past 24 hours is looking as if it will make landfall somewhere between Tampa and the Florida Panhandle — although most computer models have it coming in as a tropical storm of low intensity along the Nature Coast.

Vice Mayor Betty Walker said Pomeroy had been mayor longer than any other. “He was different, but he was special,” she recalled. “He was going to get the last word in. Some of the stuff he came up with was hilarious. He was a good man. He was a good boy.

“He was a good person.” She said he was concerned about people.

Walker said Pomeroy was “all about the betterment of Chiefland.” The city is going real well, she said, and she hopes the commission will keep it going in his honor.