(CNN) — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist warned Sunday that more flooding could be on the way in parts of the state already hard-hit by Tropical Storm Fay, now a tropical depression.

Residents are evacuated amid high waters Friday in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Crist told reporters he would take an aerial tour Sunday of the areas that took the worst of the storm.

Also Sunday, President Bush declared a "major disaster" area in Florida, making the counties of Brevard, Monroe, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie eligible for federal funds.

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Fay, the tropical storm that wouldn’t go away, has weakened to a tropical depression, but forecasters warn it could still drop up to a foot of rain along its path over northwest Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Fay was marching west-northwestward at 10 mph Sunday morning, and forecasters warned that the storm could spawn isolated tornadoes Sunday in the Florida Panhandle, western Georgia and Alabama.

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Fay, which sprang to life eight days ago over the Dominican Republic, caused flooding and at least 10 deaths in Haiti before sweeping over Cuba, the Florida Keys and onto the Florida peninsula.

The storm spent several days circling the central and upper coast of Florida with heavy rain and severe flooding before beginning its current westward track. iReport.com: Send your videos, photos from the storm

Fay is blamed for 11 Florida deaths.

Another storm-related death was reported kaufen cialis in Cairo, Georgia — about 35 miles north of Tallahassee — when a teenager playing near a drainage area achat levitra was swept away in rising waters, the National Weather Service reported.

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