FORT LAUDERDALE – South Florida received soaked in excess of the weekend with regular downpours, and numerous persons woke up Monday to much more rain.
It wasn’t a welcome sight.
Plenty of Broward neighborhoods are nonetheless drying out from flooded streets.
In Las Olas Isles, among the Intracoastal and the ocean, numerous side streets ended up underwater Monday morning from a mixture of the rain and king tides.
It is even worse west of 95 in Melrose Manors where by some citizens are nevertheless dealing with knee-deep floodwater.
The community has no underground drainage process and has lived with flooding for decades.
Theron Allen Junior, who has lived there a ten years, suggests when it rains, flooding is some thing absolutely everyone has come to count on.
“if you have a tiny vehicle, it will get messed up. You need to have an SUV,” he says.
People in areas of the Edgewood neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale that seriously flooded in April ended up working with flooding Sunday.
“The water just piles up and will not go wherever,” suggests Edgewater resident Kevin Clevenger.
“We have PTSD. It is really pretty annoying,” mentioned Edgewood resident Claudia Reyes, who is even now completing get the job done on her dwelling that was wrecked in April.
The new drainage enhancement technique becoming set up in Edgewood is nevertheless a yr away from completion.
Assistant General public Performs Director Dr. Nancy Gassman suggests the new process is assisting some citizens but right until the challenge is full there will be pooling water.
As for Melrose Manors, the drainage enhancement operate will not get underway for a few much more many years.
“It really is 17 miles of pipe. It has to be carried out suitable,” stated Gassman.
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