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 CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - The first tropical storm of the hurricane season was less than advertised Tuesday, bringing rain, gusty winds and some thigh-high street flooding to Florida's Gulf Coast without blowing up into the hurricane forecasters feared.
There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries or deaths.
But emergency planners said the preparations were not in vain: Alberto allowed them to hold a not-so-dry run of their disaster plans. And the rains snuffed out some of the wildfires that have bedeviled parched central Florida over the past few months.
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