Hurricane Debby leaves behind deadly floods and million-dollar drug find

Hurricane Debby hit the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina on Monday, August 5. Waves washed ashore packages with surprising contents. These packages were worth over a million dollars in total.

As reported by Border Patrol officers in Miami, quoted by the newspaper "The Guardian," a passerby stumbled upon a package while walking on a beach on one of the islands in the Florida Keys archipelago after Hurricane Debby had passed.

The man found packages on the beach containing nearly 70 lbs of cocaine. A photo of the 25 packages with drugs was shared on platform X by a local Border Patrol representative, Samuel Briggs. According to his account, the finder of the cocaine immediately contacted the authorities.

Officers quickly confiscated and secured the find. They estimated that the black market value of the drugs exceeds a million dollars (approx. $1.05 million).

The hurricane hit the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, causing the deaths of five people—four in Florida, including two children, and one in Georgia.

Since Monday, the hurricane has weakened but has turned into a tropical storm. The accompanying rainfall is causing floods and inundations. Rescue operations are ongoing, involving hundreds of people whose homes are underwater. President Joe Biden has authorized the governors of these states to declare a state of emergency.

According to the latest forecasts from meteorologists, in the next two days, the wind speed is expected to reach over 56 mph. Debby will thus remain a tropical storm, but close to the hurricane threshold of 74 mph.