Fort Lauderdale’s airport remained closed for a second day Thursday after 25 inches of rain fell on the South Florida city, flooding roads, swamping cars and stranding travelers, officials say.
Thursday after 25 inches of rain fell on the South Florida city, flooding roads, swamping cars and stranding travelers, officials said.There have been 900 calls for service to the city’s fire department, including rescues, but no deaths have been reported.showed abandoned cars littering downtown, even as the waters had receded.
“I think we maybe got four hours of sleep, and it was freezing,” she said. They were trying to get a rental car Thursday.Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday declared a state of emergency for Broward County, where Fort Lauderdale is, and the county government also declared a local emergency. “Thus far, we have been able to assess preliminarily $2 million in damages to our schools,” Valerie Wanza, acting chief of staff for the school district, said at a briefing. “A lot of it is due to flooding.”
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