State of Emergency Issued As South FL Battered By Heavy Rain and Floods

A state of emergency was issued Wednesday evening in South Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis as Invest AL 90, a disorganized low-pressure tropical disturbance, brought heavy rains and life-threatening flooding to many parts of the state.

Victor Corone, 66, pushes his wife Maria Diaz, 64, in a wheelchair through more than a foot of flood water on 84th Street in Miami Beach on Wednesday. (AL Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Areas of Miami-Dade and Broward counties were among the places hardest hit by the storm, which will continue to bring rain across Florida over the next several days.

Because of the torrential rains, a major state of emergency exists in Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, and Sarasota counties.

It’s been a wet and blustery week in Florida. In Miami, about 6 inches of rain fell Tuesday and 7 inches in Miami Beach, according to the National Weather Service. Hollywood got about 5 inches

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