Bay County Central Dispatch kept busy by overnight thunderstorm

Numerous calls of fallen trees and down power lines kept Bay County Central Dispatch busy Wednesday night and into this morning. Leonard Norman, Central Dispatch director, said that before midnight, his office received eight calls for fallen trees, seven for downed wires and one for a down pole. From midnight to 6:34 a.m., dispatchers received 21 calls of down wires, seven for fallen trees and one for a fallen pole." The staff would've been busy with that kind of call volume," Norman said. "They were hopping, I imagine."


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