The one-day rain total in Fort Lauderdale is equal to almost 40% of the average for an entire year, DePodwin said. ►The Red Cross was setting up a staging area to help residents whose homes were flooded, providing them with blankets and coffee, officials said.įort Lauderdale flooding, rain are 'life threatening' tornadoes possible
►Video from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport showed water coming in the door at a terminal and a virtual river rushing down the tarmac between planes.
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►Part of the roof of a shopping plaza in Fort Lauderdale collapsed, according to WPLG, which showed images of a huge hole in what the TV station said was previously a Bealls Outlet department store. HISTORIC STORM FORECAST: First April tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico? Latest forecast says history unlikely. "There are cars getting stuck in flooded waters, just (adding) to the emergencies that are taking place." "Stay off the roads until some of this water dissipates," Gollan warned. Fort Lauderdale Fire Chief Stephen Gollan warned of "severe flooding in multiple areas" of the city of 180,000 residents. Sections of I-95, the state's main north-south traffic artery, were overwhelmed by water for several hours. WATER EVERYWHERE: Photos show water-logged Fort Lauderdale airport, flooded Florida streets amid huge rain storm Work crews cleared drains and pumped out standing water Thursday after the previous day's deluge.Ī flood watch was in effect across much of South Florida through Thursday night, the National Weather Service said. "The amount of rain, the rainfall rate is something you should see once in in every 1,000 years or once in every 2,000 years," Dan DePodwin, AccuWeather's director of forecast operations, told USA TODAY.ĪccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said at one point Fort Lauderdale got about 1 1/2 inches of rain in 10 minutes, "close to the United States’ all-time record for rain in that short period of time.”īoth Fort Lauderdale and its home county of Broward issued a state of emergency as flooding forced residents in some areas to wade through knee-high water or use canoes and kayaks to navigate the streets. Some areas received 20 inches of rain in six hours. Hollywood and South Miami received at least 9 inches of rain. South Florida was under siege and under water Thursday amid a storm that dumped 25 inches of rain over some coastal areas, flooding homes and highways and forcing the shutdown of a major airport.įort Lauderdale was slammed with 25.95 inches of rainfall in 24 hours, AccuWeather reported. He said the smaller Tampa spill, about 39,000 gallons, took place at W Minnehaha Street and the river, a few blocks south of Lowry Park, at the same time as the larger spill.Watch Video: Fort Lauderdale airport closes after rain dumps down on Florida city The plant is permitted to handle 96 million gallons a day, but it has the capacity to handle surges flowing at as much as 200 million gallons a day. "It's a lot of rainfall in a very short period of time," Weiss said. For several hours Monday night, the plant was taking in water at a rate of 170 million gallons every 24 hours. Curren Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant was able to handle and treat all the sewage that reached the facility without any problems. In the past, the city has looked into coordinating the use of pumping stations upstream to slow the flow of wastewater and take advantage of spots in the system where some water can be held so that the flow into the treatment plant is more even.
Still, Tampa officials are looking at the operation of the city's 230 pumps during the storm to determine whether they could have been operated differently to prevent the spill. If the system is going to back up, officials would expect it to do so at such a low spot. The spill took place just upstream from a low spot where a wastewater line goes under the Hillsborough River. "Obviously, it's a direct result from the rain," Tampa Wastewater director Eric Weiss said Tuesday.
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