After rare flash flood emergency, Florida prepares for more heavy rainfall in coming days

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After rare flash flood emergency, Florida prepares for more heavy rainfall in coming days

Dangerous flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated much of southern Florida, blocking roads, floating vehicles and delaying travelers. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)

BY CURT ANDERSON
Updated 5:57 AM EDT, June 13, 2024

A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida as residents prepared to weather more heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday.

Wednesday’s downpours and subsequent flooding blocked roads, floated vehicles and delayed the Florida Panthers on their way to Stanley Cup games in Canada against the Edmonton Oilers.

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“Life-threatening flooding is now ongoing,” the service said on the social platform X. “Please stay off the roadways and get to higher ground.”

Mayors in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood declared a state of emergency for their cities on Wednesday afternoon. Later Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also declared a state of emergency for five counties — Broward and Miami-Dade on Florida’s Atlantic coast and Collier, Lee and Sarasota counties on the state’s west coast.

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1. So FL has way too much rain and there's a near drought in NE FL.

They keep predicting rain, but the rain clouds blow on by and don't drop their water on us. Or if we get any water, it's just a sprinkle which doesn't cool anything and just skyrockets the already oppressive humidity. We need rain every week here, it cools things down so much. I don't think we've had any substantial rain for over 2 weeks and everything is burning up.

[CaptainTruth]

2. East central FL has been dry for a couple months...

...until this week. Areas east of Orlando got 4-6 inches over the past few days.

[lark]

3. NE FL was forecast to get lots of rain, even thunderstorms this week.

So far, a few sprinkles on the day it was supposed to pour. It's so freaking hot and dry!! Sigh.

[CaptainTruth]

4. I can relate. One day we had 93% chance of rain...

...& I was outside enjoying the sunshine, no rain in sight.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Why hasn't TSF stopped it from happening?

Did he lose his black Sharpie?