Flooding all the time: The future of South Florida in 6 screenshots

 

Watch the entire video here

Miami Herald, 6/13/2024

Come on down!!!

Life-threatening rainfall pummeling South Florida that’s closed I-95 and caused major delays at the region’s two largest airports Wednesday was considered a flash flood emergency — an “exceedingly rareexceedingly rare” circumstance classified by forecasters when catastrophic damage is imminent. 

[snip] 

Alfredo Rodriguez moved into St. Edward’s Apartments in the Edgewater neighborhood of Miami a year ago, and he said it’s flooded five times since he got here. The lobby of his building had a half inch of water puddled inside on Wednesday morning, during a brief respite from the rain. 

“It was a surprise to me. I want to leave this place in the next three months. This is horrible. I can’t pull my car around,” he said. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather-news/article289208609.html#storylink=cpy 

Related posts:

2024

Ron DeSantis cancels climate change.  Unfortunately for Florida residents, its effects are only going to get worse.  (6/8)

Welcome to Ron DeSantis's Florida:  Don't say gay, don't say climate change.  What idiocy is next?  (5/21)

2020
Donald Trump pet, Ron DeSantis, stretches the leash on climate change to the breaking point. (1/3)

2016

The video doesn't tell us about the incidents of sunny-day flooding.  (10/24)
Cherry Grove, South Carolina: Call it nuisance flooding or high-tide flooding or sunny day flooding, but most of all call it more likely to happen.  (2/23)
Norfolk, Virginia.  (2/23)

2014
Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9)