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Storms Cut Hardee Mobile Home Park's Water Supply

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 12, 2008

In addition to the hail up to the size of golf balls that fell in Hardee and DeSoto counties, Wednesday's thunderstorms cost some Wauchula residents their electricity and water.

Hardee County Emergency Management said firefighters and an ambulance were called to a mobile home park on Sims Road about 6:15 p.m. after receiving a report people were trapped in a mobile home by a fallen tree. Rescuers found no tree, but a 10-inch limb had dropped on two mobile homes. No one was trapped, and the branch didn't punch through the mobile homes' roofs.

Elsewhere in the park, limbs knocked down power lines and broke a water main. Wauchula has been forced to cut off the water supply to the entire park until the owner can fix the line.

Reports of damage from Hardee and DeSoto counties first reached the National Weather Service office in Ruskin about 6:19 p.m. and continued filtering in until about 7:48 p.m.

The weather service expects similar thunderstorms this afternoon.

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