Last week, Florida experienced flooding after a tropical system dropped up to 20 inches of rain on some parts of the sunshine state.
According to the National Weather Service in Miami warned that there was a risk of excessive rainfall for Broward County and Miami-Dade County on Friday. The weather service issued a flood watch through Friday evening.
Florida could still see an elevated risk of rainfall with a forecast for heavy rainfall in cities including La Belle, Immokalee, Naples, and Everglades City, according to the weather service.
Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Department of emergency Management said flooding remains in many areas that were hit the hardest. Guthrie said, “Some of that water may very well be contaminated.”
Officials were forced to close Interstate 95 in Broward County. The interchange was taken out of commission for nearly six hours.
The state sent crews with eight pumps to clear the water from Interstate 95, according to Jared Perdue, secretary at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
With so many states seeing flooding, one state is getting a helping hand to address its flooding problem.
Stafford County in Virginia has received a $10.2 million federal grant to help prevent reoccurring flooding.
The funding will be used to realign a approximately half-mile portion of Brooke Road and Loblolly Lane to Maplewood Drive so part of the road can be taken out of the flood plain.
The area floods during rainstorms which isolates hundreds of residents.
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Source: Inside Nova, USA Today
