MIAMI (WSVN) - A line of showers moved across South Florida, causing extensive flooding in parts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
A street flood advisory issued on Thursday afternoon for parts of Miami-Dade was allowed to expire, but the precipitation left standing water on major roadways in Miami.
Just before 4:15 p.m., 7News cameras captured significant flooding along Biscayne Boulevard, near 17th Street.
“All right, this is pretty flooded around here,” said an area resident.
Drivers with their hazard lights were seen navigating the flooded roadway. Others were seen turning around rather than drive through it.
Extensive flooding was also reported in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood.
Cellphone video sent in to 7News captured the driver of a Porsche traveling on a sidewalk along Brickell Avenue in order to avoid the floodwaters.
Video also showed flooded sidewalks near 15th Street and Lenox Avenue in Miami Beach.
Thursday afternoon, 7Skyforce hovered above a stalled sedan and SUV in Miami.
In Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, cellphone video showed an overflowing storm drain in front of The Watermarc at Biscayne Bay apartment complex on North Bayshore Drive.
“We need to do something with the city for the pipes and the seaweed and everything, because that worries me,” said a passerby. “We have the kings right now, for the ocean, for the tides, but we need something better.”
7News also captured standing water in the area of Northeast 141st Street and Third Court.
Near Northwest Sixth Street and 124th Street, drivers took a chance and navigated through the flooded road.
The floodwaters have since receded on Biscayne Boulevard and 17th Street, but not before several stalled vehicles were towed away.
Miami Police tweeted that high water vehicles were helping stranded motorists.
“Pretty much, people’s cars, they get … hydrolocked. The engines get locked because of the water going into the engine intake manifold, and then it locks the engine to the vehicles, so they’re stranded,” said tow truck driver Mike Perez with The One Auto Solution. “You can’t move them unless you have a tow truck.”
Perez said that when it rains like this in downtown Miami, he is not surprised drivers have issues.
“Especially in this area, where all these buildings are going up. It used to not flow like this. Now with all the buildings going up, now it’s flooding bad,” he said, “especially with the tides. If the tides are high, it gets flooded.”
Thursday evening, a section of Biscayne Boulevard underneath State Road 395 was shut down in both directions. It reopened at around 9 p.m.
Perez said that in the span of just two hours, drivers with The One Auto Solution towed away 20 vehicles away from flooded roadways.
There was also extensive flooding in parts of Broward County.
7Skyforce flew above a flooded home on Dania Beach, where a 7News viewer said the ground was so saturated that it uprooted a tree, causing it to land on top of his neighbor’s home.
Cellphone video also showed heavy flooding on Oakland Park Boulevard and Bayview Drive in Fort Lauderdale.
Thursday evening, heavy rainfall continued to move from the Gulf of Mexico across the Florida Keys, particularly in the Lower Keys.
Meteorologists forecast the rain to linger in the region through at least Thursday night. More storms moved across Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties through 10 p.m.
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