WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Homeowners in Northeast Miami-Dade, are stuck on their own mini-islands.
Yvrose Casseus lives near Northeast 14th Avenue, where floodwater has left the street completely covered.
Casseus said, “Nobody can go anywhere because its flooding. I cannot go nowhere.”
When asked how many cars he towed from that same neighborhood Wednesday, Elison Morban said, “Just from this neighborhood today, I think I’ve taken about 20 cars.”
Giovani Bilorio, who needed a tow, said, “It’s submerged almost every area. We’ve been in almost knee-high puddles.”
Standing outside the residential home in the neighborhood along Southwest 84th Avenue and Southwest Second Street Wednesday, Juan Nunez said he and his family were stuck in the house because the water was too high to open the front gates.
“We’re literally living on an island right now,” Nunez said. “This happens a lot when it rains like this. We’re stuck. I could just wait until the water goes down so I could try to open up the gate. You can see the whole neighborhood is flooded.”
Some cars slowly navigated through the high waters of Nunez’s neighborhood. Others were not so lucky. A bronze Chevrolet got stuck in the middle of the road.
“You just gotta be more prepared; that’s it,” resident Aldo Santos said.
Residents are hoping the county will help to mitigate the flooding issue. Until then, they’re hoping that the rain holds off.
“We get another rain shower, even half of what we got yesterday or a quarter of it, the water will probably come up to the top of the fence right here,” Nunez said.
In Hialeah, Soledad Mayor’s home has been flooded.
Mayor said, “My furniture and everything inside is completely wet.”
Her 78-year-old mother has fallen twice because of the wet floors.
Mayor said, ”Last night, the water in this hallway was up to my knee.”
“Well, I’m trying to clear the drain here right now,” said Mickey Mendes. “The water is kind of moving slowly but surely.”
Mendes has been clearing debris around the storm drain in hopes that it will usher some of the water away.
“My mother has to go to work, my sister has to go to work, and I have to keep the roads as clear as the vehicles can move,” he said.
It’s far from the only North Miami-Dade neighborhood soaked from days of rain. 7SkyForce HD flew over Northwest 103rd Street, where front yards and streets were under several inches of water.
7SkyForce also captured a paddleboarder near Northeast 199th Street and 14th Avenue having an easier time navigating the streets than any car.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez addressed some of issues surrounding the recent floodings in a Zoom conference.
“I know that our Water and Sewer director told us that they were supposed to, I think, eat over close to 900, either over 800 million gallons of water going back into the system, which means our pipes were full and pressurized, and it could cause some backages, so we’ve had some problems with this,” he said. “We have to talk to [South Florida] Water Management District to see what their plans are, how they’re draining this excess water away so that when we have the next rain event, it doesn’t flood like last night.”
As a safety rule of thumb, if you cannot see the bottom of the road, it’s best not to risk driving through the flood.
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