Up to two feet of rain was dumped on the Fort Lauderdale area!
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The water was rising around her car, and Amanda Valentine thought she was going to die. She had just gotten a warning on her phone about flash flooding, and now it was all around her.
About a foot of rain fell in the Fort Lauderdale area in one day after several days of nonstop rain. The Red Cross set up a staging area to help residents whose homes were flooded, providing them with blankets and coffee, officials said. In the Sistrunk neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, 74-year-old Bobbie Ponder hiked up her dress to push her bicycle the last block to Ray’s Market to get a money order for her internet bill, only find it flooded and closed. Bags of potato chips and Cheetos floated in a foot of water as workers tried to clean up.
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