FORT LAUDERDALE – Extra rain is anticipated after heavy downpours flooded Fort Lauderdale and elements of South Florida in a single in 1,000 rain occasions a 12 months.
- Between 16-20 inches of rain reported in Broward County
- The Nationwide Climate Providers is reporting 26 inches of rain at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport
- There could also be extra rain in Broward
- Broward County on flash flood alert till midday
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1:56 pm.: Ivan Cabrera, chief meteorologist for CBS Information, stated extra storms are forecast for South Florida and areas already inundated with flooding may see extra rainfall. “By this afternoon till 8, we could possibly be coping with extra rain and impacts.”
1:03 pm: Broward County Mayor Lamar Fisher suggested passengers to not come to the airport till it resumes operations. “Please do not come,” he stated.
12:48 PM: Door Sprint suspends operations in Fort Lauderdale till 5pm, however that is it “depending on altering climate situations.” These adjustments have been communicated to dashers, sellers and clients in affected areas, the corporate stated. “The flooding in Fort Lauderdale has created street situations that make driving extraordinarily harmful, if not not possible.” stated DoorDash spokesman Giuliano Crowley.
12:09: Hollywood YMA declares it’ll shut at 1pm attributable to inclement climate.
11:53am: Governor DeSantis points an announcement on the Broward flooding, saying FDEM has deployed personnel to assist native efforts, together with the gathering of injury evaluation information in Broward County. The Florida Freeway Patrol has elevated staffing to coordinate protection in response to flooding and in anticipation of further storms anticipated within the space.
11:40 – Residents of a number of Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods who had been rescued from their houses after being trapped by floodwaters had been dropped at a relaxation cease. Joe Gorchow of CBS Information Miami reviews that organizers are actually looking for locations to go.
11:38. The Nationwide Climate Service extends the flood warning to 4:00 p.m. for Broward County.
11:32 Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis speaks stay. He stated town responded to greater than 900 calls throughout the rain occasion. Metropolis workplaces will likely be closed. Parking management operations will likely be suspended. In the course of the press convention, Trantalis stated he had not heard from Governor Ron DeSantis.
“No metropolis may have deliberate for this,” he stated.
11:27 FPL reviews 934 clients with out electrical energy and 177 with out electrical energy in Miami-Dade.
11:16 Michael Kane, of Broward Hearth Rescue, says the company needed to go home to accommodate by boat to rescue individuals trapped by flooded roads.
“Undoubtedly one of many worst rain occasions,” he stated after a number of many years of working in emergency response.
10:45am. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport, which was closed attributable to flooded roads, runways and asphalt, will reopen early Friday morning.
10:35 Dania Seashore has declared a state of emergency. Metropolis Corridor, the seaside, the pier and all parks will likely be closed on Thursday. Groups are presently assessing roads, metropolis buildings and infrastructure throughout town to make sure the security of residents and guests. Residents are suggested to remain off the roads if doable.
10:32. Outpatient providers at Broward Well being Medical Heart are canceled for Thursday. All different buying and selling operations proceed as regular. Medical doctors’ workplaces are closed solely within the following areas: physician’s workplace constructing positioned inside Broward Well being Medical Heart and workplaces positioned at 1625 SE third Ave. and 1601 S Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Motorists ought to keep away from the intersection of Third Avenue and Andrews Avenue.
10:30. A number of Broward County services had been impacted by the floods and a few providers had been unavailable Thursday.
- Broward County Libraries are closed at present
- Different county services closed at present embody: Nancy J. Cotterman Heart (NJCC), Broward Habit Restoration Heart (BARC), Workplace of the Medical Examiner & Trauma Providers
- Broward colleges are closed at present
- In the present day the State Prosecutor’s Workplace is closed
- The seventeenth District Court docket is closed at present, together with all courts.
10:15 Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy stated homes and streets in Hollywood had been considerably emptied yesterday. “Fortunately I can report that lots of the neighborhoods had greater than a foot and a half of water yesterday and lots of the streets grew to become impassable with automobiles caught to the facet. Lots of them have dried out considerably and the streets are even dry. This that is not the case in different neighborhoods.”
10:15. Broward Mayor Lamar Fisher stated the toughest hit areas are in Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, within the japanese a part of the county. He stated they’re working with these municipalities to offer mutual help and help.
“Any manner we can assist and help our municipalities, we are going to. I do know our administration is working instantly with town supervisor (Fort Lauderdale) and has supplied as a lot help as doable within the final 24 hours. we’ll give them to him,” he stated.
Extra rain is anticipated after heavy downpours flooded Fort Lauderdale and elements of South Florida in a 1 in 1,000 12 months rainfall occasion.
Whereas Thursday’s rain will not practically attain the quantity it dropped on Wednesday, it is going to be problematic and create extra flooding, the Nationwide Climate Service stated. Gusts of wind, small hailstorms, and even remoted tornadoes are doable.
Broward County is below flood warning till midday.
Fort Lauderdale officers activated its Emergency Operations Heart and issued a neighborhood state of emergency. Town is utilizing high-clearance airboats and buggies by the County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Florida Wildlife Fee to rescue individuals and pets trapped in houses by floodwaters.
A relaxation space was arrange on the Winn Dixie close to SR 84 and 9 Ave. A reunion heart was arrange on the Vacation Park.
Fort Lauderdale Metropolis Corridor stays closed. The bottom ground is flooded and employees are working to revive electrical energy to the constructing.
They ask residents to be affected person with the floods. Service groups are responding to flood reviews and issues.
Officers have requested residents to keep away from driving or touring to Fort Lauderdale throughout storms. They stated anybody who has left their car deserted on the roadway and is now unable to find it ought to contact Westway Towing at (954) 731-1115.
The Broward Sheriff’s Workplace stated it was inundated with non-emergency 911 calls relating to “inclement climate.” They ask residents to make use of 911 just for “actual emergencies.” Additionally they need residents to keep away from driving on flooded roads and name a tow truck firm if a car is stranded and never in an emergency.
The Broward Sheriff’s Hearth Division has responded to a number of hundred weather-related emergencies over the previous thirty-six hours, primarily to help stranded motorists when their automobiles grew to become caught in excessive water.
Between 14 and 20 inches of rain drenched the better Fort Lauderdale metro space Wednesday afternoon, in accordance with a Thursday morning replace from the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Miami.
“This quantity of rain in a 24-hour interval is extremely uncommon for South Florida,” stated meteorologist Ana Torres-Vazquez of the Miami Climate Service’s forecast workplace.
The 20 to 25 inches of rainfall is much like what the world can obtain with a top-end hurricane for greater than a day, Torres-Vazquez defined.
South Florida may get an extra 2-4 inches of rain from Thursday’s storms.
There’s a slight danger, degree 2 in 5, of extreme storms Thursday in elements of Florida, together with Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Jacksonville, in accordance with the Storm Prediction Heart.
