Slow-moving Tropical Storm Debby bringing torrential rains and flooding to to southeastern US [Video]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby brought prolonged downpours and flooding to the southeastern United States on Tuesday and was expected to hover over the Atlantic Ocean for the next few days, then boomerang back onto the mainland, leading to potentially record-setting rainfall.

The storm was forecast to move relatively slowly across some of America’s most historic Southern cities, including Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. The National Hurricane Center has forecast up to 25 inches (64 centimeters) of rain in some areas.

“Hunker down,” Van Johnson, the mayor of Savannah, Georgia, told residents in a social media livestream Monday night. “Expect that it will be a rough day” on Tuesday, he said.

People were trudging through waist-high water in one Savannah neighborhood, and the mayor posted the video as a reminder. “The water is serious,” he said.

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