648
WWUS52 KMLB 112045
SVSMLB
FLC127-112055-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
445 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2010

COUNTY SPECIFIC MESSAGE:

/O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-100811T2045Z/
VOLUSIA-
445 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

THE SEVERE STORM AND TORNADO THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED
AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE
WEATHER...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- 294
WWUS52 KMLB 112027
SVSMLB
FLC127-112045-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
427 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2010

COUNTY SPECIFIC MESSAGE:

/O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-100811T2045Z/
VOLUSIA-
427 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY...

AT 405 PM EDT...VOLUSIA COUNTY EVAC REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
IN A WOODED AREA WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 AND SOUTH OF STATE ROUTE 44.

Courtesy photo.

Editor's Note: This is a campaign notebook for Sharon Luebbers, candidate for School Board District 3, in her own words; with our editing:

Dear Southeast Volusia District 3 Voters,

My name is Sharon Luebbers and I am emailing you to ask you for your consideration and vote to become your full-time representative on the Volusia County School Board for District 3.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- If the race for the Volusia County Council District 3 seat were won on the basis of money alone, then Joie Alexander would be the clear winner with $30,320, Deborah Denys would be second at $16,114.25 and Ellen Darden at close third at $14,775.

But considering Alexander -- the incumbent at-large incumbent term-limiteed out of that race and trying to gain the Southeast Volusia seat held by outgoing Jack Hayman -- loaned her own campaign $10,000, the race would be tighter, if money were the only factor.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- With 197 votes cast Monday on the first day of early voting for the Aug. 24 primary elections, New Smyrna Beach had the second highest tally in Volusia County behind Deltona with 205.

Ormond Beach was third with 184 voters, followed by Daytona Beach with 170 and DeLand with 119.

The voting booths were at each city's main library.

In all, there were 875 votes cast by registered voters in the following parties, even though local races are non-partisan and state and federal are partisan: Democrats, 367; Republicans, 405 and other, 103.

Photos for NSBNEWS.net.

The bright lights from the Florida East Coast Railraod train, shown in these two photos, shows through the darkness of night as it sits idled on the tracks on Indian River Boulevard early Monday after striking and killing a pedestrian on the tracks.

EDGEWATER -- A 34-year-old city man was killed early Monday after he was struck by a Florida East Coast Railroad freight train on the tracks in the vicinity of State Road 442, also known as Indian River Boulevard, Edgewater police said.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Jeanette DiCara.

Pete Johnson of New Smyrna Beach looks at blown  insulation covering the outside of his home like snow, with pieces of the roofing twisted on his side balcony, following a small tornado that touched down on the beachside just after 1:30 p.m. Saturday  A tarp was placed on Johnson's Sandpiper Avenue home a short time later. Below, roofers begin repairs about two hours after the tornado touched down.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A small tornado touched down on the beachside just after 1:30 p.m., damaging the roof of a couple of homes on Sandpiper Avenue and Laurel Bay Drive, but no injuries were reported, New Smyrna Beach officials said.

"The roof of a home at 707 Sandpiper was damaged," City Commissioner Jack Grasty told NSBNEWS.net. "A garbage dumpster was moved about 75 feet into a car, but there wasn't much other destruction."

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Lois Morey Saine, of New Smyrna Beach, died Thursday, July 29, 2010, at Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach. She was 89.

EDGEWATER -- A 27-year-old Port Orange man was arrested Tuesday on charges he committed sexual battery on a 14-year-old girl after drugging her to the point where she was incapacitated, Edgewater police said.

The alleged incident occurred in Edgewater the night before, Edgewater police Detective Chris DeRosa said, adding that the accused confessed to the crime in a telephone call from police, leading to his 12:10 p.m. Tuesday arrest.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick

Just weeks before New Smyrna Beach's planning debacle brought dozens of city projercts to a grinding halt in June, Chad Lingenfelter, shown here with his hand raised, and Mark Rakowski, the two planners blamed by city officials for the mess, applied unsuccessfully for the planner's job in Oak Hill. See the attachments posted with this story for their applications to Oak Hill.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In another bizarre twist in the city's planning debacle, then-Chief Planner Chad Ligenfelter and his former boss, Mark Rakowski, both applied for the planner's position in Oak Hill, just weeks before the scandal broke last month. Neither won over Oak Hill officials who were pleased and relieved New Smyrna Beach's embarrassment wasn't passed on to them.