Fort Lauderdale residents demand faster fix as neighborhoods flood

Flooding in Fort Lauderdale left parts of the Victoria Park neighborhood underwater for hours on Thursday.

“Five minutes of heavy rain and it immediately floods,” resident Areeb Naseer said.

Naseer has lived on Northeast Eighth Avenue for nearly 10 years. He said water comes up and out of storm drains instead of flowing into them during heavy rain, leaving roads flooded—sometimes for days—before draining…

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