A mother and her two children were treated at a local hospital Monday morning after being shocked by lightning while camping outside their Bradenton home.

Lindsey Lester said she and her young children Joelle and J.R., along with her boyfriend and a baby, were huddled inside a 10-person tent outside Lester's home on the 2200 block of 20th Ave. W. when a strong storm rolled through.

Lester said she was giving her children camping lessons when lightning struck very close by at around 4 a.m. She and the two children suffered electrical shock.

The three were rushed to Manatee Memorial Hospital, but none were seriously injured. They were all released in about two hours.

Wet weather continues

Meanwhile, storms continue to move through the Tampa Bay area, and more rain is expected overnight. In fact, the rain chances will remain high throughout the early part of the week, according to the Bay News 9 weather team.

“A deep plume of tropical moisture is being drawn up from the south over the state. Our rain chances remain high through Wednesday,” Bay News 9 Meteorologist Josh Linker said. “A flood watch is in effect until Wednesday morning as some locations may pick up several inches of rain through then.”

A power outage in south St. Petersburg was reported around 8:30 p.m., initially affecting more than 2,000 customers. Power was fully restored by 11 p.m.

Early today, about 530 customers in central and southern Pinellas County and 51 in northwest Hillsborough County were without power, according to Tampa Electric and Duke Energy officials.

West-central Pinellas County received particularly heavy rain during the overnight. About four to five inches of rain fell from Indian Shores to Seminole.

There have been reports of some standing water, including some flooding on Fourth Street North between 15th and 20th Avenues in St. Petersburg.

Some areas have received more than four inches of rain in the last 24 hours.

June: Typically the start of the rainy season

Linker said June is typically the start of the rainy season, and June 2013 lived up to that billing with some very heavy rainfall during the month.

“It started with rains from Tropical Storm Andrea and ended with our current wet pattern,” he said.

Some very impressive rain totals for June were found across the Bay News 9 viewing area:

Citrus County
Floral City 14.10"
Hernando 12.12"
Inverness 9.81"
 
Hernando County
Brooksville 13.08"
Trilby 12.44"
Weeki Wachee 10.38"

Pasco County
Land O' Lakes  15.55"
Dade City   13.34
 
Hillsborough County
Sulfur Springs  21.44"
Seffner 18.22"
Odessa  13.78"
Ruskin 13.65"
Tampa (Int'l Airport) 11.30"
 
Pinellas County
Safety Harbor 10.93"
St Pete  9.48"
 
Polk County
Davenport 14.18"
Ft. Meade 13.29"
Lakeland 13.10"
 
Manatee County
Ellenton 14.20"
Lakewood Rainch 13.46"
Myakka City 11.21"
Sarasota-Bradenton Airport 8.74"
Bradenton 16.42

The average June rainfall is between 6 and 8 inches depending on the specific location.