{"id":46515,"date":"2024-06-13T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46515"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:23:15","slug":"state-of-emergency-issued-as-south-fl-battered-by-heavy-rain-and-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/06\/13\/state-of-emergency-issued-as-south-fl-battered-by-heavy-rain-and-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Emergency Issued As South FL Battered By Heavy Rain and Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/flood-sfl.webp?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/flood-sfl.webp?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/flood-sfl.webp?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/flood-sfl.webp?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/flood-sfl.webp?w=1066&amp;ssl=1 1066w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">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.\u00a0(AL Diaz\/Miami Herald via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of the torrential rains, a major state of emergency exists in Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, and Sarasota counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state of emergency was issued Wednesday evening in South Florida by Gov. 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