Jun 13, 2024 - News
Photos: Stranded cars left behind on South Florida's flooded streets
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A disabled car is towed in Hallandale Beach. Photo: Martin Vassolo/Axios
We were out in the field Thursday documenting the aftermath of this week's flooding.
- Here's some of what we found:
New York tourist Michelle Barreto, 32, spent the latter part of her Miami vacation waiting for a tow truck to fish her rental car out of the flood.
- Barreto and friend Norah Amer, 29, got caught in the rain Wednesday night as they returned to their Hallandale Beach hotel from dinner and waited until 2am for a tow that never came.
- To make matters worse, their flight was delayed three times on Thursday.
- "You could not pay me enough to come back here," Amer said.
The worst street we saw: Northeast 148th Street and 16th Avenue in Golden Glades was a lazy river on Thursday.
- Flooding from the day before had not dissipated by Thursday afternoon and water rose past the wheels of stranded cars.
Lissette Aguilera, a resident at Eastwood Mobile Home Park in Hallandale Beach, was securing her patio furniture and organizing her belongings in preparation for another deluge.
- On Wednesday, she was carpooling home from her housekeeping job in Aventura when traffic hit. So she walked three hours home in the rain.
- The water hit her knees as she walked home, and she arrived to see it had entered her home, too.
- She's lived at the mobile home park for seven years and says it never used to flood. She blames all the construction in her neighborhood.
- "There's been hurricanes here and it never flooded."
Despite the cloudy skies, groups of beachgoers lounged at Mid-Beach Thursday morning.