Several neighborhoods in northern Miami-Dade County remain under more than a foot of water days after strong storms hit South Florida.
The floods have trapped some residents of the northeast area inside their homes, prompting rescue teams from the Miami-Dade Fire Department to intervene to evacuate them, the newspaper reported. Local 10.
“It doesn’t go down much, especially at home,” said Lidie Thurc, who lives near the 1100 block of 144th Street in northeast Miami-Dade. “We still have a lot of water in the house. I can’t go out because the water outside is higher than inside,” the media outlet quoted him as saying.
Thurc recounted the distressing experience since the beginning of the Torrential rainsrevealing how parts of her home and community were submerged underwater, forcing her to call for help.
She, along with her two young children, her mother and her husband, were rescued by emergency teams this Friday, when some showers were still reported.
As Thurc’s family sought shelter in a dry place, his neighbors struggled to navigate on foot or by vehicle through the flooded streets.
Residents hope county workers will help relieve flooding soon so they can begin cleanup and salvage what they can.
The Miami-Dade Fire Department has been actively assisting the community, deploying elevated trucks to offer aid to those in need.
Likewise, animal rescuers have had to ask for help to relocate dozens of cats rescued from the floods. Many have drowned, they lamented.
In images shared by Telemundo 51, you can see how there are streets that remain flooded with water, making it difficult for vehicles and pedestrians to travel. Even so, some movements are observed among the waters of people going out to look for necessary products.
Other stories have been picked up by Local 10, who interviewed Residents of Fort Lauderdale that were affected by the heavy rains.
Residents in South Florida were warned Thursday that more heavy rains will arrive in the coming days due to a tropical disturbance that has caused major flash flooding.
Fortunately, the disturbance has not reached cyclone status and only has a slight chance of becoming a tropical system when it enters the Atlantic Ocean after crossing Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.
